MUSEUMS. 



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The localities of the following are doubtful : — 

 Three Breast Ornaments of varying forms. 

 Two Cane Armlets. 

 Girdle-dress of plaited grass. 

 Cocoa-nut Armlet. 



Small Pestle and two Mortars, for pounding betel-nut. 

 Wooden House Support, in form of two reptiles. 

 Head Ornament of plaited rattan, with shell fringe. 

 Wooden Shuttle. 

 Shell Mesh Gauge. 

 Lime Spoon. 

 Wooden Food Stirrer. 



Breast Ornament, a frame of split rattan, ornamented with Boar's 

 Tusks, &c. 

 Solomon Islands : — 



Four-pronged Fishing Arrow, Fish Killer ; purchased. 



New Hebrides: — 



Two Wooden Clubs with star-shaped ends ; purchased. 



False Beard ; purchased. 



Dance Mask, in form of a fish, made up of split rattan covered with 



tappa cloth, painted white, and covered with projecting wooden 



pegs ; purchased. 

 Dance Mask, made up of wood, split rattan, and vegetable fibre, 



dyed and painted ; purchased. 



Polynesia. — New Zealand : — 

 Jade, • Tiki ; ' Wooden Club, ' Patu ; ' purchased. 



Hervey Islands : — 

 Elaborately-carved Paddle ; purchased. 



Mikronesia. — Matty Island : — 

 Breast Ornament, an ovulum, .strung on to a piece of pandanus 

 leaf; Two Netted Bags, decorated with shells; Four Shell 

 Fish-hooks ; purchased, 



Mongolian Race. 



America. — South : — 

 A collection of Ethnoo;raphieal Objects, from the Carnja Indians, 

 River Anicrnaya, a tributary of the River Amazon, State of Goyaz, 

 United States of Brazil ; purchased, as follows : — 



