176 Shells as evidence of the Migrations, 
voyage, figures an instrument of palm-wood, used for 
splitting bread-fruit in this island, to which are attached 
two tiger cowries with their inner whorls broken out, and 
one end cut off." 
In the Loyalty Islands, the orange cowry (Cypr@a 
aurora) is greatly valued. The Rev. Mr. Hadfield, in 
the course of his missionary work, came across a fine 
specimen in a native hut in Lifu, where it was held in 
much veneration by the occupant, who considered it a 
kind of fetish.” Mr. Iladfield also gives us some turther 
interesting information regarding this species. He tells 
us that his wife came upon a specimen which, according 
to the native report, had been found by an old woman 
who was struck on the forehead by a demon, who asked 
her why she took the shell. The woman, it is said, died 
from the effects of the blow,"” This fine shell is used as a 
badge of high rank in Tonga, or Friendly Islands, as well 
as in Fiji. One of the most remarkable Fijian industries 
is the working of whales’ teeth to represent this cowry, as 
well as the commoner C. /a/pa, which is more easily 
imitated.” 
The New Zealanders, it is stated, use Cyprwa asellus 
and other shells to form the eyes of their idols." 
Codrington, in his * Melanesians” (Oxford, 1891, p. 26), 
tells us that in Aurora, the nearest of the New Hebrides 
to the Bank’s Islands, the natives have a story that the 
first woman came from a cowry-shell. Somewhat analogous 
ideas are expressed in the traditions of the Samoans as 
to the origin of man. By these people it is believed 
'ea 7. Anthrop. Just, 21 (1891-2), pp. 195-6, pl. x., f. 5. 
165 Melvill & Standen, ‘‘ Lifu Mollusca,” Journ. of Conchology, viii., 
1895, p. 112. 
198 TOid., p. 131s 
167 A. II. Cooke, ** Molluses,”’ Caml. Nat. Hist., iii., 1895, p. 98. 
169 Jhid., p. 99. 
