MALEKULA EFFIGT.—HAMLYN-HAEEIS. 15 



These effigies seem to be entirely restricted to people of importance, and 

 doubtless, as previously stated, are chiefs' monuments, 1 the main object of which 

 seems to be to perpetuate their memory. 



The Queensland Museum effigy measures 5 feet 7 inches in length, with a 

 chest measurement of 12"^ inches, and comes in all probability from South-West 

 Bay. The right arm, which is 3214 inches in length to the finger-tips, is slightly 

 longer than the left arm, which only measures 30*4 inches, and each hand holds 

 the jawbone of a favourite pig which has been sacrificed at his death, to enable 

 the spirits to accompany their master through the shades of Lelemis, the spirit- 

 world of these strange people. 



The Queensland Museum is indebted to Mrs. Belbin, widow of Captain 

 Belbin, " Boro Belle " schooner, one of the old Queensland labour vessels, for 

 this interesting donation. 



1 Edge Partington, Plate 55, Ethnographical Album of the Pacific Islands, 3rd series, 

 August, 1898. 



