28 Rcbort of a Journey Around the JJ^or/d. 



catalog-ues, things necessary and useful but not always vitalized. 

 Personally I have learned more from the many private collections 

 it has been m^^ good fortune to visit than from much larger muse- 

 ums where the very abundance absorbs the individual specimen 

 in the general collection. 



At Mr. Beasley's we noted especially the Maori feather boxes, 

 of which he has a large and choice collection ; he has also other 

 Maori specimens, and altogether a very interesting result of his 

 careful selection. From the Chichester museum he obtained a 

 Hawaiian feather cloak which will be described elsewhere. Mr. 

 Fuller has a more general collection, one of the most interesting 

 and valuable private collections we visited : among other treas- 

 ures he has a Hawaiian feather cape, of which he has kindl}' sent 

 a photograph with the history ; a large and rudely carved Hawaii- 

 an image 52 inches high (Figs. 26 and 27), differing greatly from 

 any other Hawaiian image known;' quilted kapa from Rapanui, 

 Admiralty Islands spears, Fijian and Tongau clubs of good quality, 

 and an extensive travel library. 



It was natural that we turned our steps eagerl}' to Cambridge, 

 for there Barou A. von Hiigel has his unrivalled colle(5lion of 

 Fijian material which all students of the Pacific region are anxious 

 to have him publish; and here too were Dr. A. C. Haddon and 

 Dr. W. H. R. Rivers, names well known and honored for their 

 good work, especially in the western Pacific region. The day, 

 May 23, was as fine as that favorable season can produce in Eng- 

 land, and our walks on the banks of the Cam and through the 

 college quadrangles filled us to the brim with the academic atmo- 

 sphere. We called first on Dr. Rivers at his rooms in St. John's 

 College, as we knew he was to leave town on the next day. I had 

 met him in Honolulu and he received us most cordially. He took 

 us to the old museum soon to be vacated for its new abode, and 

 here Baron von Hiigel was ready for us, and although much of 

 his colle(5lion was in traj'S awaiting removal we were shown manj' 

 gems and had much pleasant discourse on the origin and uses of 



' I am sorry to say that its nature suggests to me the work of a carver of 

 ship flgvireheads in which has been used as a model an inhabitant of an island 

 much nearer London than is Hawaii ; but this carver must have known the 

 Hawaiian }nahioIe and general figure treatment; the hand is much larger and 

 the mouth smaller than usual in Hawaiian images. I cannot say that it is 

 not Hawaiian work. [176] 



