—to Patricia Fiske, Director of the Textile Museum, Washing- 

 ton, for an explanation of the nature of fabrics in general and of 

 "pounded bark cloth" in particular (Emery); 



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edge of the South Pacific I profited, and whose familiarity with 

 and suggestions of possibly useful titles (especially those of the 



Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu) appreciably simplified my bib- 

 liographical problems; 



to Stephen Nonack, research librarian, Library of the Boston 



Athenaeum, for securing books from special collections not 



available to me and for tracing data that I needed in order to make 



an educated guess about the Botanical Museum's "Minns gift 

 tapas"; 



—to the staff of the Tozzer Anthropology Library, Harvard 

 University, for cheerful cooperation. 



Last, but really first, my husband, Maurice, must receive my 

 gratitude for his steady encouragement throughout the accom- 

 plishment of a piece of work the difficulties of which neither he 

 nor I anticipated. I have depended especially on his geological 

 and geographical knowledge of Oceania. 



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