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head. Clubs finely carved; a small one in the case of relics of 

 Captain Cook is labelled "given by the king of Owhyhee to Capt. 

 Cook." Paddles, large and well carved. 



Society Islands. 

 Stone adze with handle. Several spears. 



Marquesas Islands. 

 2 clubs of the finest quality. 2 Paddles, long and good. 



Gilbert Islands. 

 Suit of coconut fibre armor with the curious shark-teeth weapons 

 for the fore-arm with nine longitudinal rows of teeth. A suit of 

 similar armor from Nawodo has a hemisherical cap and an up- 

 right cape like those iti Berlin and Hamburg. 



Solomo)i Islands. 

 2 reed shields, one rectangular, the other with rounded corners. 

 Several bows. Clubs with the fern plaited covering almost gone. 



Fiji. 

 6 War paddles. Club, musket pattern, of immense vSize; 5 com- 

 mon ditto; II Knobbed; 3 Pinapple; 11 Throwing; a round one 

 3^ inches in diameter.* 



From Nine several paddles: from New Guinea a bow of bambu: 

 and from the Admiralty Islands spears with obsidian points. 

 Mr. J. Edge- Partington was correcfting the mistakes in the labels. 



The massive building in Great Russell street which con- 

 tains the sculptures, library, ethnological and art collecftions of the 

 British Museum has in its verj' entrance porch two of the Easter 

 Island stone figures, of one of which the Bishop Museum has 

 photographs. Within the gloomy building with long galleries 

 lighted only from above, and in a Eondon atmosphere of course 

 badly lighted, are crowded most astonishing collecflions from the 

 Pacific Region. A very important part is the loan by the Eondon 

 Missionary Society of the many rarities brought to England by the 

 late Rev. William Ellis and other missionaries; This is perhaps 

 the cream of the collecftion from Polynesia. 



Haicaiian Islands. 

 Feather cloak, red with yellow rhombs; another red with yellow 



*The Bishop Museum has a round Vitiaii club ii in. in circumference, 44 1-2 in. long and 

 weighing 12 1-2 pounds. (No. 1033.) 



