ADDITIONS TO THE ETHNOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS, 

 CHIEFLY FROM THE NEW HEBRIDES. 



By R. Etheridge, Jdnr., Curator. 

 (Plates xxxii.-xxxix.) 



The New Hebrideaii collection has fi'oni time to time 

 received some very valuable additions, amongst others the 

 following interesting objects : — 



I. — Stone Food-dishes. 



The largest of these (PI. xxxii.), evidently an adapted block 

 of stone, is broad oval in form, with a I'ounded rim, or 

 periphery, of variable width. It measures two feet by nine- 

 teen inches in cross diameteis, the full height is five inches, 

 decreasing to two inches inside, and is ninety-six pounds in 

 weight. 



It was presented by Mr. J. E. Fysh, of " Big Bay," Santo, 

 who states it to be about the size and shape of the to-day's 

 wooden food dishes. The dish was, for a long time, lying in 

 the village, close to Mr. Fysh's house, but when a new 

 position for the village was selected, and removal took place, 

 the dish was left behind, it being taboo ; the villagers pro- 

 fessed total ignorance of its origin or age. Dr. C. Anderson 

 informs me the stone is a volcanic tuff. 



Dr. W. T. Brigham has figui'ed a similar flat but round 

 dish, taken from "a heiau [temple] on Molokai, [and] is the 

 largest worked stone dish of Hawaiian origin I have yet 

 seen."^ Elsewhere Dr. Brigham says his dish is of compact 

 lava, twenty inches in diameter, and used as a receptacle for 

 small offerings in the temple.- Except for its circular 

 outline the Hawaiian utensil is quite of the same type as 

 the present example from Santo. 



A still larger, but worn dish, is figured by the same 



author from Nihoa Island, " used for grinding awa."-^ 



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^ Brigham — Occ. Papers Bernice Pauahi Bishop Mus., I., No. 2, 1900, 

 p. 20. fig. 6. 



2 Brigham— Memoirs IhiA, I., No. 4, 1902, p. 52, p. 54, fig. 51. 



3 Brigham — MemoirB Ihid, pi. xliii., fig. 1227. 



