lo Mcnna HofiiiKscinn. 



Maniliiki ( PaKiiiotii Group). 

 Paddles of coconut wood inlaid with small pearl-shell disks: this 

 ornamentation being characfteristic of this island. 



Hei c 'f 1 ' Is /a ?idi. 

 Delicate, lace-like mat, the braids resembling human figures. A 

 similar mat was afterwards found in Weber's collection at Berne 

 undoubtedly Tongan. They were used in barter. 



N'ew Giiinca. 

 Cuirass of Calamus rotang . 6 Pan-pipes; one of them with 24, 

 the rest with 13 reeds. 2 Cofhns of canoe form with covers. 

 2 Gourd whistles like the Hawaiian Ipu hokiokio, with 3 holes. 

 Spears tipped with cassowar}- bone were labelled "lyauka". 



The feather work from Brazil was chiefly 3'ellow, black, and 

 red, strings of feathers, not on net- work, and greath' resembling the 

 Hawaiian /ci. Feather sceptres from the Mandurucu were beauti- 

 ful, but the so-called cloak of Montezuma surpassed them all. This 

 was formerly in the Ambras colledtion and was figured, *described, 

 and repaired by the late Baron von Hochstetter formerly Direcftor 

 of this museum; and it has since been the subject of much discus- 

 sion as to its original intention, whether head-dress, ensign, orcloakt; 

 but its form indicates the first. A broad fringe of Quetzal feathers 

 ( PharoDiacrus mochino ) shows its royal chara(5ter: with these are the 

 wonderful turquoise-blue feathers of the Xiuhtototl (Cotiiiga cincfa 

 or arr u /raj. A feather fan of the same origin described and fig- 

 ured + by Herr Gustos Heger is 26^ inches in diameter and hardly 

 less beautiful. A shield of feather mosaic is al.so here. 



The staff of this museum is large, and the ground-floor con- 

 tains a village of work and store rooms opening into interior courts. 

 Visitors on public holidays crowd the vast halls to the great dis- 

 comfort of those who wish to see anything, the throng being so great 

 that the police have to move it in one dire(5tion only. Much kind 



■* I'eber mexikanische Reliquien aus der Zeit Montezuma's in der k.k. Ainbraser Samni- 

 lung in den Denkschriften der philosophisch-historischen Classe der kaiserlich Akadeniie 

 der Wissenschaften in Wien, Bd. xxxv (18S4). 



t Zelia Nuttall. Standard or Head-dress? Archseological and Ethnological Papers of 

 the Peabody Museum, Ha:-\'ard University, Vol. i. No. i. 



t Altmexikanische Reliquien aus dem Schloss Ambras in Tirol. [Aunalen des k.k.nat- 

 urhistorischen Hofniuseums, Band vii, Heft 4. Wien 1S92.] 



