NEW ZEALAND MORTUARY EFFIGIES. 



201 



"Beside my lent, at Tahuahu, on the right bank of the Mangapu, there 

 stood an odd half decomposed figure carved of 

 wood; it was designated tome by the natives as 

 a Tiki, marking the tomb of a chief." 



The same author states, page 4-l\'5: "The dwell- 

 ings of the chiefs at Oliineinutu arc surrounded 

 with inclosnres of pole-fences ; and the Whares 

 and Wharepunis, some of them exhibiting very 

 fine specimens of the Maori order of architecture, 

 are ornamented with grotesque wood-carvings. 

 The annexed wood-cut [here reproduced as Figure 

 118] is intended as an illustration of some of them. 

 The gable figure, with the lizard having six feet 

 and two heads, is very remarkable. The human 

 figures are not idols, but are intended to represent 

 departed sires of the present generation." 



Fig. 117.— Now Zealand 

 grave-post. 



Fig. lis.— New Zealand house posta. 



CHARMS AND FETICHES. 



The use of objects as charms and fetiches is well knowu. Their 

 graphic representation is not so well understood, although in the at- 

 tempted interpretation of pictographs it is to be supposed that objects 



