Report of a Journey Around the JVorld. 



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20 in. long; 2 long basket-work cones with seed capsule rattles at the apex. 

 vSniall rush figure with extended arms and fingers; 2 decorated caps for festi- 

 vals; 4 earthern pots, two of them from Santo. 



Solomon Islands. Nine clubs covered with fern-stem braid; 11 paddle 

 clubs of dark wood, 15 of light wood; 5 longiels, 4 dance longiels, 5 arm-guards 

 of coiled vine, 35 stone axes; 2 shields of wood, 2 of reeds, and i braided, 

 plain; 12 carved canoe figures, 20 carved dance figures; 18 dance paddles, 

 common; 12 with carved tops; pump-drill with cylindrical fly, 2 war belts; 

 arrows galore. Canoe model inlaid, 2 women's dresses of white cord, 2 carved 

 boat idols with turban-like head covers, club of flat rhomboidal form, 2 masks 

 inlaid, 4 earthern pots, 18 bows, 7 canoe heads inlaid with pearl-shell. Food 

 bowl, inlaid, family size; another smaller. Human figi;re on frame, 2 human 

 heads carved on a base, double-headed human figure, inlaid; braided comb, 

 3 large wooden mortars from vShortland Island, the largest 30 in. high exclu- 

 sive of ground peg; 3 bunches of white Hctix shells used as rattles, 7 decorated 

 coconut and bambu water-bottles, 9 woven baskets or bags, 18 stone adzes; 

 9 baskets of rattan, 2 with handles; 8 hair-pins with human figure carved on 

 top, 13 lime-boxes of bambu decorated; 19 lime-boxes of gourd, engraved; 

 large pan-pipe, with 12 reeds. More than 50 red and 3'ellow woven armlets of 

 artistic patterns. 



New Guinea and Bismarck 

 Archipelago. An immense col- 

 lection impossible to enumerate 

 here. It is probably the best in 

 any museum, as one would expect 

 from the extensive interests of the 

 German Government in this re- 

 gion. Of the more remarkable 

 objects are the following : Eleven 

 shields, heavy, carved wood; 10 

 shields, similar but rectangular; 8 

 decorated shields of wood curved 

 horizontalh-; 14 similar but curved 

 verticall}-; 2 wooden shields from 

 Friedricii Wilhelm's Land, 7 car^'Cd wood shields with arm notch at top, 3 

 hour-glass shields covered with braided rattan, 10 stone disk clubs, stone 

 star club, club with triangular stone head, 6 knobbed clubs, 2 pump-drills, 

 6 carved wood pillows, 11 stone adzes moiinted; 14 drums with lizard-skinheads 

 and flat bases; 2 similar with mitre-shaped bases; 2 pan-pipes with 24 reeds, 

 from New Hanover; 2 similar pipes from the same locality with 20 and 21 reeds. 

 From New Ireland: 12 masks of human frontal bones, 25 stone ball clubs; war- 

 gong, a hollow cylinder 49 in. long and 69 in circumference, with a longitudi- 

 nal slit 2 in. wide; 27 chisel-like adzes of greenstone; 21 chalk images, some of 

 unusual size; 2 wood floats for shark fishing. Wooden fiddle from New Britain 

 (Fig. 210), 6 shell collars flat on the fibre, same locality. Two mummies of 

 children from Torres Strait; 7 tortoise-shell masks from same locality. Tri- 

 ton trumpet, dukduk costume, 7 matrimonial nut signals; 8 wooden clubs, 

 cone at both ends, 26 small greenstone adzes, bags decorated with Coix seeds; 

 slings like Hawaiian from Kaiser Wilhelm Land. Pan-pipes with 9 reeds, lower 

 ends fibre-bound; lime-boxes of gourd and coconut shell, shell crescents, etc. 



I^;^IDKN. Rijks Rthnographisch Museum te Leiden. Dr. H. H. Ju3niboll, 



Directeur. 



Hawaiian Islands. Feather cloak, red with yellow triangles.' Feather 

 cape with a narrow border of red and j'ellow feathers alternating triangles on 

 sides and neck, the body covered with the green-black feathers of the Frigate- 



' This has been figured in the Internationaln Airbiv fi'ir Ethnographit\ Bd. I, Taf. viii. At 

 present this is much torn and faded. [425! 



210. WOODEN Fiddle. 



