56 Tin: AMKUKWX Ml'SKl'M JOmXAL 



The tullowiiiu- troiii I{(il)lcv".- MaLu: (ir Mmiri 'I'dftnitiiKj su<;.<;r.sts tlie 

 reciuirciiu'tits of the war daiict' jjost-: "Tin- war (laucc. . iiivohed con- 

 stant thrnstiiiL': oiil of the tDn^nic and so nnicli distort Ion of the features 

 that tlic l)lnc lines of the Moko formed a (|ui\crint,^ netwoi-k. Ihc time 

 or ea«k'nee of tlie (kmee was marked hy strikini;- tlie |)aliii of ilie left hand 

 against the thiiih." 



As tlie woi'k pi-oi;'i-essed. mem hers of the Maoi'i 1 ronpe called at the Mu- 

 seum and expressed satisfaction with the statue as a faithfid record of 

 nati\'e life. Their advice was especially ser\iceal)le on the subject of 

 tattooing, for the (io\-ernmeiit has for some time prohiititeil the tattooin<i; 

 of Maori men so that for this phase of the work Mr. Neandross would other- 

 wise ha\e l)een obliged to rely wholly upon second-liand information, which 

 he was thus enabled to cheek by the oral comm\nn'cations of iiatixc authori- 

 ties. Thus the fijiure of Hautuotcran.u'i, together with the Kobley ( 'ollec- 

 tioii of tattooed heads exhil)ited in the tower itself, conveys a very fair idea 

 of probably the most distincti\"e form of j)ersonal decoration of the South 

 Sea Islanders. 



[The figure of the " Maori Warrior" is especially interesting to those who have 

 followed the history of its making. The finished statue is the embodiment of a plan held 

 by the Director of the Museum to whom the largest block of jade in the world suggested the 

 need of some heroic theme to set forth the relation of this stone to the Maori people, who 

 considered jade one of the most desirable articles of their wealth. 



.\ year or more before the block of jade was brought into the hall where it now has 

 position, iSIr. Neandross had made sketches for a Maori figure to be placed upon the stone. 

 Impetus was given to the work by the arrival of the Hippodrome Maori troupe in Novem- 

 ber of 1909, the friendly interest of these people in the Museimi's jiroject being gained 

 through Professor H. E. Craminon. 



It chanced that when Professor Cramptoii took the steamer at Sun t'rancisoo for his 

 latest journey to the South Seas, in the summer of 1909. he met a representative of the Hippo- 

 drome management who was on his way to New Zealand to bring back a band of Maoris. 

 Some weeks after Professor Crampton's arrival at Tahiti, this man. with Mr. AVIiyte, the 

 representative of the New Zealand Ciovernment, and thirty Maoris, came tliere from Auck- 

 land, in order to take the steamer to San Francisco; thus Professor Crampton met the entire 

 crowd at that time. Later he went to New Zealand himself, and while visiting the volcano 

 and geyser districts in the interior, spent some time at the very village from which these 

 people had come, where he met their families and saw many of their native dances and 

 heard their .songs. On returning to New York, therefore, he was interested not only to see 

 these people and tell them .some of the later news from their own coimtry and hear the same 

 songs that he had heard ten thousand miles away in New Zealand, but also to bring the 

 whole matter to the attention of the Department of .Anthropology, which arranged for the 

 visits of the Maoris, so fortimate in residts for the Mu.seum 



The statue represents some of the best work in the Museum done by Sigurd Neandross. 

 It has the stamp of accuracy, being cast directly from a Maori native and the coloring 

 studied from the same individual. The pose was a very difficult one to get in a cast, for 

 in such tense action the muscles of a model tire and relax. Success was gained by 

 making the mold in parts, and of course the open mouth and tongue and the tattooing had 

 to be modeled. — Editor] 



