MALLERY.] NEW ZEALAND CARVINGS. 685 
_work. In immediate connection with the present topic Fig. 1099 is 
presented. It shows the carved columns in front of the chief’s house 
at Massett, Queen Charlotte island. 
The following illustrations from New Zealand are introduced here 
for comparison. , 
Dr. F. yon Hochstetter (b) writing of New Zealand, says: 
The dwellings of the chiefs at Ohinemutu are surrounded with inclosures of pole 
fences, and the Whares and Wharepunis, some of them exhibiting very fine speci- 
mens of the Maori order of architecture, are ornamented with grostesque wood cary- 
ings. Fig. 1100 is 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. 
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Niblack (e) gives a description of the illustration reproduced as Fig. 
1101. 
Tiki. At Raroera Pah, New Zealand. From Wood’s Natural History, page 180. 
Of this he says: ‘This gigantic tiki stands, together with several others, near the 
tomb of the danghter of Te Whero-Whero, and, like the monument which it seems 
to guard, is one of the finest examples of native carving to be found in New Zealand. 
The precise object of the tiki is uncertain, but the protruding tongue of the upper 
figure seems to show that it is one of the numerous defiant statues which abound in 
the islands, The natives say that the lower figure represents Mani the Auti who, 
according to Maori tradition, fished up the islands from the bottom of the sea.” 
Dr. Bransford (b) gives an illustration, copied here as the left-hand 
character of Fig. 1102, with the description of the site, viz: “On a hill- 
