PAINTINGS OF MT. PELE re) 
PAINTINGS OF MT. PELE. 
HE Museum is fortunate in having secured as a loan exhibit the 
series of eight paintings of Mt. Pelé, Martinique, made by the 
late Professor Angelo Heilprin of the Philadelphia Academy 
of Natural Sciences and Yale University, who was one of the leading 
geographers of the country. Professor Heilprin visited Martinique 
during the great eruptions of 1902 and 1903, first as the delegate of the 
National Geographic Society and afterward on his own account. ‘The 
paintings now at the Museum were made from sketches, photographs 
and other studies in the field and are valuable not only from an artistic 
point of view, but also from their giving a record of the impressions of 
an observer who was a scientist as well as an artist. 
The paintings have been installed in the lobby of the central hall 
(No. 204) of the second floor and wiil be of interest to those who have 
known Professor Heilprin personaily and through the medium of his 
vivid printed and oral descriptions of the tragedy of Martinique that 
resulted from the most interesting as well as one of the most destructive 
volcanic eruptions of historic times. 
PRESERVED TATTOOED HEADS OF THE MAORI OF NEW 
ZEALAND. 
HEN Captain Cook published the account of his famous first 
voyage around the world, which was made in 1768-1771, he 
described the forms of skin-decoration which he found in 
vogue among the natives of the South Sea Islands. Europeans had 
never before heard of such practices and were correspondingly astonished. 
Cook’s rendering of the native term for the process and the result was 
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“amoco,” a word that is now written ‘‘moko.”’ ‘The decoration is more 
commonly known to us, however, as “tattooing.” 
The most remarkable work was found among the Maori of New 
Zealand and the preserved tattooed heads of the chiefs and other promi- 
nent men finally commanded such a price among souvenir collectors 
that many murders were committed for the sake of the heads, and in 
1831 the government of Sydney, Australia, then in control over New 
