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is no trace of similar ornament. Again, tlie glazed and 

 artistically decorated ware of the Fiji Group offers no resem- 

 blance, nor need the large deep pots of New Caledonia be con- 

 sidered. Going farther afield, the facies of the best preserved 

 piece (PI. XXXV., fig. 3) of this Mallicollan pottery seems in a 

 broad sense to resemble that on potsherds found in a similar 

 position to the latter, by Mr. P. J. Money at Rainu, near 

 Wanigera Creek, Collingwood Bay, East New Guinea. The 

 potsherds in question were found on excavating the mound 

 sites of vanished villages, all knowledge of which is denied 

 by the existing inhabitants of that region. The motive on 

 these pieces is quite distinct from that of the fine pottery now 

 made there. These Rainu potsherds, Mr. Money informs me, 

 are believed to have been the work of a people known as the 

 Gei'agi, now extinct, who spoke a language quite different to 

 that now spoken by the Collingwood Bay people, which is 

 termed " Ai'ibi." With these pottery pieces were associated 

 carved shells (much decayed), bone articles, stone head-rests, 

 &c. The Rev. J. N. Mackenzie states that the words de- 

 noting a pot in New Guinea (part not stated) and Santo are 

 the same. 



In the tear-like motive there is a general resemblance to 

 some of the designs seen on Arkansas burial-mound pottery. 



The locality of the Mallicollan fragments is Onua Village, 

 on Onua Bay, East Mallicollo. 



VII. — Nassau Island Adze-head. 



For an opportunity of describing this verj^ interesting 

 object (PI. xxxix.), I am indebted to Prof. John Macmillan 

 Brown, of Christchurch, New Zealand, who obtained the loan 

 of it from Capt. B. F. Allen, of the s.s. " Dawn," Samoa 

 Shipping and Trading Co. Ltd., Sydney. 



It appears that a comparatively recent tidal-wave swept 

 ashore at Nassau Island, removing a very large quantity of 

 soil over an area of five acres, and to a depth of six feet, 

 when this implement, and a sharpening stone were exposed. 

 These were underneath a skeleton, which, on exposure, at 

 once crumbled to a mass of dust. 



