190 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEDM. 



The next in size, also of volcanic tuff, is a large shallow 

 oval dish, seventeen inclies long, fourteen inches wide, two 

 and a half inches high, one and a quartei- inches within, and 

 the weight twenty-eight pounds (PI. xxxiv., tig. 1). 



A small mortar-like dish, or bowl, is represented in PI. xxxv., 

 fig. 1, witli well-rounded sides and seamed with cracks 

 tilled with spar. It is composed of a light-coloured stone, 

 probably a consolidated coral-rock. It is five inches long, 

 four and a half inches wide, two inches high, one and a 

 quarter inches within, and is one and a half pounds in weight. 



The fourth and last dish is more or less pyriform with 

 rounded sides, and at one end two mammillary projections 

 (PI. xxxiii.) as in the bowl about to be described ; this is also of 

 volcanic tuff. The measurements are : — Thirteen and a, half 

 inches long, ten and a half inches broad, three inches high, 

 one and three quarter inches inside height, and a weight of 

 twelve and a half pounds. 



All four utensils are from Tavanapni and Narata PlaTitation, 

 St. Pliillip and St. James' Bay, Santo, othei'wise known as 

 " Big Bay." 



II. — Stone Bowl. 



Portion of a much-worn ai'gillaceous limestone bowl (Pi. 

 xxxvi., tig. 1), when entire (Pi. xxxvii., tig. 1) oblong oval, in 

 its present condition comprising a little more than one half 

 the original. When placed in position it is four and a half 

 inches high, six inches long, and three and a quarter inches 

 deep inside ; the apei'ture is four inches across. The thick- 

 ness is unequal, but on the fi-actured side it is one inch 

 and an eiulilli thick. At the end, an inch below the rim, 

 is a flattened projection which is, no doubt, a modified liandle, 

 in fact this becomes quite apparent when the restored vessel 

 is examined (PI. xxxvii., fig. 1). 



The block of stone was evidently chipped into shape by 

 successive blows with a ])i)inted tool, and hollowed by the 

 same process, and both externally and internally the pitting 

 so caused is visible. On each side of the bowl is a kind of 

 panel ; one is one and three quarter inches square, and 



