Berlin — Copeyihagen . 23 



less than 30 in. — with 12 reeds. More than fifty red and yellow 

 woven armlets of artistic patterns. 



New Guinea & Bismaick Archipelago. 

 An immense collecflion impossible to enumerate here. It is 

 perhaps the best in an}' museum, as one would expecft from the very 

 extensive interests of the German Government in this region. Of 

 the more remarkable objedls are the following: — 



II Shields, heavy, carved wood. 10 Shields similar but rectan- 

 gular. 8 Decorated shields of wood curved horizontally; 14 sim- 

 ilar but curved verticall}'. 2 Wooden shields from Friedrich 

 Wilhelm's Land. 7 Carved 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 mounted. 14 Drums with lizard skin heads 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 each. From New Ireland, 12 Masks of hu- 

 man frontal bones; 25 Stone 

 ball clubs; War gong, a hol- 

 low cylinder 49 in. long and 

 69 in. in circumference, with a 

 longitudinal slit two inches 

 wide; 27 Chisel-like adzes of 

 greenstone; 21 Chalk images, 

 some of great size*. 2 Wood 



floats for shark fishing. Fig. Fig. 28. 



27, PI. VI. Wooden fiddle from New Britain. Fig. 28; 6 Shell 

 collars flat on the fibre, same locality. 2 Mummies of children t 

 from Torres Strait. 7 Tortoise-shell masks, same locality. Tri- 

 ton trumpet. Dukduk costume. 7 Matrimonial nut signals. 8 

 Wooden clubs, cones at both ends. 26 Small greenstone adzes. 

 Bags decorated with Coix seeds. Slings like Hawaiian, Kaiser 

 Wilhelm Land. Pan-pipes with 9 reeds, lower ends fibre bound, 

 lyime boxes of gourd and coconut shell. Shell crescents. Etc. 

 Nationalmuseet den Ethnografiske Samling Kjobenhavn. 



* In these images the abnormal developement of a certain part is not entirely native, but 

 arises from a desire to secure a market with foreign sailors and traders. 



t This seems a favorite disposal of the dead on Darnley Island and elsewhere in this reg- 

 ion. They are not verj' well mummyfied and without additional preparation will not keep. 



