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service), and when at last we entered, expecting to find the Poly- 

 nesian exhibit arranged in cases after the latest fashion in the 

 most scientific order, we found — well, certainly we were disap- 

 pointed. Perhaps we expected too much after the German muse- 

 ums. It will be well to explain the arrangement of the interior of 

 the Trocadero (Fig. 89) before going farther. The huge dome, 

 flanked by two towers, covers various offices and a large auditorium 

 or Salle des Fetes containing a fine organ and seating capacity for 

 6000 auditors. In the illustration the wing extending to the right 

 contains the architectural museum and the Cambodgian collec- 

 tion, while the corresponding wing on the left is devoted to the 

 ethnographical collections. The room containing the Polynesian 

 objects (most of which were packed away in 1896) was rather dark 

 and crowded, but we found many choice things. Among these 

 was the first pair of Marquesan stilts with the original sticks (the 

 specimen in the British Museum has smooth modern substitutes); 

 a good inlaid shield from Solomon Islands ; four especially good 

 carved paddles from Mangaia ; a two-headed figure from Easter 

 Island; the New Caledonian display was good, but the specimens 

 from the eastern French colonies, the Marquesas and Society 

 Islands, were few and not remarkable ; the more noteworthy are 

 to be found in the lists in the latter part of this report. The trophy 

 style of arrangement of clubs that was so inconvenient for study 

 in the old Musee de Marine has been adopted here also, so no cata- 

 logue of objects thus displayed can easily be made. The arrange- 

 ment of one of the rooms seemed well, if unintentionally, described 

 in a popular guide-book from which I will quote all that relates 

 to Oceania in the upper story: 



"Arms of all kinds: Polynesian stone arms: lances, arrows, 

 bows, shields; headdresses, clothes, wicker-work, wood and iron, 

 rudely wrought, models of pirogues of huts, statues of gods, god- 

 desses, idols, fetiches of the gods Bouddha, Siva, Singha. etc.; 

 busts of natives, dressed figures of Australians (man and woman), 

 of Mabris [Maoris?], of natives of the Marquesas isles, woman 

 printing the tapa. In the middle of the hall on the left, dancing 

 scene (Negritos of the Andaman isles). On the right : Negritos 

 of the State of Perak (Malay peninsula); large glass case of Java 

 objects. On one side : marionettes [Wajang]; on the other, theatri- 



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