3i8 Report of a Journey Around the JVor/d. 



considerable part of the specimens are for the use of students and not on ex- 

 hibition, but from the specimens exhibited the Pacific region seems very 

 inadequately represented, and it would be better, perhaps, to reserve all the 

 specimens for private study. This is not a condition peculiar to Chicago; it 

 is American. 



PITTSBURG, PBNN. The Carnegie Museum. \V. J. Holland, LL-D., 

 Director. 



Hawaiian Islands. Two umeke for poi, dish for roast pig or dog, 2 

 chief's mats, fan, several specimens of kapa, Niihau mat. 



Samoan Islands. Three clubs, 2 fans, specimens of siapo (bark-cloth). 



New ^Jealand. Two greenstone patu, stone adze. 



Gilbert Islands. Two belts ornamented with Cypraea shells. 



New Caledonia. Jadeite axe. 



Fijian Islands. Water-bottle, fan of Thakombau, club from King 

 Thakombau (^akobau); another club, hairpin, 2 bags, 2 bracelets of shells, 

 costume of grass, shield(?), cloth from coco fibre. 



Solomon Islands. Four spears. 



Australia. Seven boomerangs, 2 shields, club with granite head cement- 

 ed with wax; waddy, knife with quartz blade set in wax and used for skin- 

 ning; 6 emu eggs, three carved; shuttle for weaving net; bag, shell horn, 2 

 match boxes. 



New Guinea. Two necklaces, of shell, i of dog-teeth; hairpin, club, 

 bow and 12 arrows (W. H. Abbott collection), 6 woven bags, 2 fish-nets, 4 

 woven belts; 6 woven bracelets, two of horn, three of shell; 3 shell orna- 

 ments, 6 mussel-shell knives, 6 boar's tusks u.sed as plane, 6 chisels of kan- 

 garoo jaw-bone; 3 pump-drills, wooden shaft, coconut disk; 3 wooden shuttles, 

 wooden bark-beater, 5 rasps of stick armed with fish-skin, 3 sticks sharpened 

 at end, 3 charm-sticks, 3 wooden hooks, 3 dancing-sticks (?), 3 bone daggers, 

 6 bone needles, 3 small plates of tortoise-shell, 3 bambu paint bottles, 3 lime 

 gourds, 3 stoppers for lime-box, carved spoon of coconut shell, shell trumpet, 



2 large shells, 3 bambu Jews-harps, 3 bambu pipes, 4 adzes of jadeite with 

 handles, 3 adzes of jadeite, fragments of obsidian; 9 spears, long, wooden; 

 4 spears for fishing, 3 wooden swords or short spears, 3 shields, 3 stone disk 

 clubs. (Exchange collection from Riksmuseet, Stockholm.) Five articles 

 of women's dress or ornament, comb of sticks decorated with feathers, comb, 

 cassowary feather ornaments for the arm, necklace of dog's teeth, band stud- 

 ded with Xassa shells, plaited bracelet with similar shells, arm-ring of carved 

 shells; bracelet of plaited rattan, red; lime gourd with beads around the 

 mouth, bambu lime-case, fishing line and hook; 2 bull-roarers, used also as 

 lime spoons and as charms. Carving "goam" of wood, carved pillow sup- 

 ported on two human figures, nail of bird's bone; coconut with handle, 

 painted red outside; stone axe, bone dagger, spoon of Nautilus shell, coco- 

 nut water-bottle, drum, spear, spear "kim", fish spear "lao", spear with 

 bambu head, wooden spear, common spear, throwing-stick. Bow with orna- 

 ments, plaited sling and string; two other bows. Arrow with bone tip fitted 

 on carved wooden head; 13 arrows of various forms from several localities; 



3 throwing-spears, shell trumpet, dagger of cassowary bone, various tools 

 from CoUingwood Bay, 2 spears from St. Matthias Island, shark-hook from 

 Matty Island, 2 spears from the Admiralty Group. 



There is also in this museum a large collection of Philippine material, 

 but this is out of our bounds in the present enumeration. 



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