Speciniois from Malckiila. 



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NEW HEBRIDES 



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graphs are in the Museum colle(ftion showing groups of these tree 

 drums, and the manner of beating upon them b}- stones wrapped 

 in kapa or other vegetable fibre. The r.culpture of the head is 

 broad and rude but evi- , 

 denth' follows some can- 

 on as there is a strong 

 family likeness. Idols 

 are made in similar 

 fashion but without the 

 void within. Two large- 

 idols carved from tree 

 ferns accompany these 



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The^' are wor- 



shipped by the sacrifice 

 of pigs, and in some of 

 the photographs the por 

 cine bones of the offer- 

 ings mount to the chins 

 of the figures. The face 

 is decorated with color 

 of a chalky nature broad- 

 ly laid on. As the im- 

 ages stand the fern is 

 inverted, the root mass 

 sen,;ing for head. One 

 image is 7 ft. 10 in., the 

 other 7 ft. 4 in. 



Four figures of a processional nature, made of bambu and 

 twigs, with caricatures of human heads. Two of these (Fig. 3) 

 have human crania with the facial region covered with some plas- 

 tic material, and the nose is inordinately prolonged as if in protest 

 against the niggardly allotment of Nature. The third has no hu- 

 man bone but cotton wool simulates it. The fourth is of a phallic 



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