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known specimens of their work are related to the Hawaiian baskets or conld have served 

 as prototj'pes. The Fijian and Micronesian baskets are closely related and show 

 an occidental (to them) 

 origin. The baskets of 

 Aiistralia are peculiar 

 in form rather than 

 material, and conld not 

 be mistaken by a stndent 

 of basketry for those of 

 any other collntr3^ The 

 Solomon Islanders and 

 New Hebrideans make 

 baskets of mat-like con- 

 sistency, quite unlike the 

 Hawaiian, but also make 

 genuine baskets of con- 

 siderable perfection. The 

 New Zealanders make 

 baskets of a still different 

 type, but their kete or 

 satchels remind one of 

 the satchels made by the 

 Fijians and Gilbert Isl- 

 anders, in shape, although 

 not at all in material. It 

 is difficult to see that 

 Hawaii has taught other 

 groups, or has in the least 

 been influenced by their 

 work. Even where the 

 same material has been 

 used, as in the case of 

 pandanus leaf, the result- 

 ing baskets are of quite 

 different forms. Even fig. 100. aprons and toi.s. 



the baskets used for fish traps, when made in both countries from fern stems, differ 

 in shape in Hawaii and New Zealand. The Samoan fish trap made of coconut roots 

 is, it is true, not unlike the Hawaiian fern stem fish trap. 



