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Fiji. Twenty-seven common pieces of pottery; 21 clubs, musket form, 



3 decorated with shells; iS throwing, 10 round, 14 knobbed, 6 pineapple, one 

 verj^ small head; 11 spears, tinelj^ carved; 2 war paddles; paddle with shovel 

 blade, 4 others carved; 2 carved lances, short and barbed; 3 kapa-beaters, one 

 handle carved; 3 wooden shark-hooks. Head covering of netted rushes tipped 

 with feathers; 5 ornaments of whale-teeth; two more with the teeth halved. 



4 necklaces of cachelot teeth; 3 with filed teeth. Many fringed dresses, 

 4 yaqona bowls, oval yaqona bowl on four legs; 5 fans, mostl}^ of whole palm 

 leaves. Oil dish with carved support; another semicircular, 3 cannibal forks, 

 carved wooden spoon, turtle-bone scoop, 2 food-hooks of odd forms, many kapa 

 sulas. Human figure 30 in. high, carved wood, round face; 4 wooden pillows. 



Micronesia. Chisels of shell, daggers of bambu, .stool of wood inlaid 

 with bone. Helmet of coconut braid conical in form, 15 in. high; 3 round, 

 carved wood boxes; 6 carved wood figures. Fire-plow, quite like the Ha- 

 waiian; 2 rasps of wood covered with sunfish skin. House model from Kusaie 

 (Finsch, 1883); shell tripod dish. Bundles of preserved food and many of 

 the common shell ornaments, belts, earrings, etc. 



209. .SHELI. ADZE, HERMIT ISLANDS. 



Hermit Islands. Two wooden food troughs, one 8.5 ft., the other 6± ft. 

 long, with well-carved internal handles. Large flat dish of dark wood, 2 bail- 

 ers with handle attached to the bottom; 6 carved canoe prows, one quite large; 

 15 hum-An lower jaw ornaments, 4 canoe models, 12 wood pins beautifullj' 

 carved, 2 carved wood fishes; 2 wooden dishes with handles and obtuse ends; 

 6 similar ones, but with carved, pointed ends. Four wooden bowls, two of them 

 small and like those from the Admiralty Islands. Five shell adzes (Fig. 209), 

 2 wooden ladles with human figures, carved adze handle; kapa, coarse and 

 slightly beaten; 7 combs, three of them with bearded human heads. Fish- 

 hooks of single piece of shell, decorated, but of rough finish and without barbs. 



Admiralty Islands. Forty-five obsidian-head lances; 10 gourd, dec- 

 orated lime-boxes, hour-glass shape; 3 wooden bowls carved in form of birds; 

 2 smaller ones of same form but lighter wood. Globular bowls of red pottery; 

 wooden bowl on four legs, a smaller one with carved handles; 3 bailers, the 

 ends of handles phallic. Cylindrical wood gong 3 ft. long, slit lengthwise 

 and hollow, projecting handles at the ends, carved decorations over the 

 handles; 4 oval wooden bowls, 2 similar with finely carved handles; bead belt 

 with 14 strands; canoe model, ovitriggered; 5 lances, carved; 8 obsidian dag- 

 gers; 8 daggers, carved, sting-ray points; adze of obsidian, large wooden food 

 bowl, 5 ladles with carved handles; 3 obsidian axes, one with carved handle. 



New Hebrides. Two large human figures of rushes with skulls or 

 frontal bones, painted; 6 knobbed (star) clubs of dark wood; 4 spears \yith 

 single point and carved head; 14 with many barbs, carved; 3 with niany points 

 of sting-ray; 13 bows; 6 clubs, spindle pattern; arrows with bluish points, 

 net pig-catcher, 3 pan-pipes with 6, 7, and 17 reeds; carved oval wooden bowl 



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