Director's Report for 1916, A7 
There are in the Museum no slings from Southern Polynesia 
to compare with Ellis’ account, but there are some from the Caro- 
line Islands, of thickly braided coir, which are provided with a 
large plain loop for the wrist, and not the running loop. 
7- MODEL OF SLING MADE OF OLONA FIBRE, WITH SLING-STONE. 
Going farther afield were found slings from the west coast of 
New Britain, and the neighboring Siassi Islands, in which the 
pocket is a fold, of palm leaf-sheath fibre, attached to twisted 
or braided cords of other material. ‘The held cord in each of the 
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