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Staff or pole. 2 Fish nets of conical form. Canoe model. Kapa 

 figured and with long fringe. 2 Kapa beaters. 



Marquesas Islands. 

 2 Pair fine stilts, complete. Sticks 6 ft. long, 2^^ in. in diame- 

 ter, chafers of kapa. 8 Carved stilt rests, 2 of them distindtl)^ 

 male figures. 6 Clubs of the finest kind. 

 Fig. 64, PL XVI. 6 Long paddles. Net 

 for gourd container. Several slings. 

 Kapas from Egmont Island. 2 Gorgets 

 of wood covered with beans of Ahrus 

 precatoriiis . 



Easter Island ( Rapanui ) . 

 2 Immense stone figures. 9 Male and two 

 female figures well carved from drift- 

 wood ; Large and small figure both 

 roughly car^^ed. 2 Carved birds and 

 .several grotesques . Carved human hand . 

 5 Small dance paddles. Obsidian lance 

 heads. Rope of human hair. 5 Gorgets 

 of wood, the usual crescent form, one in- 

 scribed with hieroglyphs. 



Tongan Islands. 

 Drum 52 inches high, car^-ed. Cylindri- 

 cal horizontal gong. 5 Adzes. 14 Combs. 

 7 Heavy paddle-head clubs. Food hook 

 with disk. Mats of open work. Club 

 with tobacco pipe worked through the 

 head. 2 Aprons of bird bones and shells. 

 2 Baskets of fine .sennit. Fig. 66, PL XVI, 

 and boxes covered with basket work. 

 Large kapa beater. Many pillows of 

 carved wood, and others of bambu like 

 the Samoan. Canoe model. Bows. Many 

 fish-hooks of the usual heavy pattern. 



Heivey Islands. 

 5 Carved food-scoops. 6 Gods of carved wood. P'inely car\-ed 

 cylindrical drum. Fig. 65, PL XVI. 22 Carved paddles, one 

 with double end, 4 with flat heads, the rest with rosettes; about 

 a dozen duplicate paddles, smaller, 4 Carved "District gods". 

 Feather caps. 10 Ceremonial adzes, .short; 10 long ones, and 



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