526 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS, 
Another carved post of like character is repre- 
sented in Fig. 735, concerning which the same 
author says, p. 338: “Beside my tent, at Tahuahu, 
on the right bank of the Mangapu, there stood an 
odd, half-decomposed figure carved of wood; it was 
designated to me by the natives as a Tiki, marking 
the tomb of a chief.” 
Fic. 735.—New Zealand 
grave-post. 
Ball, on Nicobarese Ideographs, in Jour. Anthrop. Inst. of Gr. Br, 
& I. (d), says, describing Fig. 736, which appears to be connected with 
mortuary observances: 
VZAEL 
Fia. 736.—Nicobarese mortuary tablet. 
