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flax garments, Korowai mats, model of Hone Heke's pa at Ohaeawai; model 

 of Tawiti's pa, Ruapekapeka ; 2 smoke-dried human heads, heru or orna- 

 mental combs; heitiki, a good assortment; jade ear-pendants, fire-sticks, bird 

 snares, fish-hooks, pigeon mats, baskets of totara bark, ko or Maori spade, 

 pestles for pounding fern root, stone and iron adzes mounted, pump-drill, 

 specimens for showing the methods of stone working. Carved feather-boxes 

 in which were kept the feathers of the huia and white heron used by chiefs 

 alone for head decoration. Shell trumpet; flutes or fifes (Maori had no drum ), 

 whipping-tops, poi-balls, jumping-jacks. Taiaha of which the tip represents 

 the protruded human tongue. Mere and patu. Toa and pouwhenua. Col- 

 lection of cave deposits. Moriori implements. 



There are a few specimens from the Hawaiian Islands, Tahiti, Niue, 

 Marquesas, Mangaia and Rapanui. 



WIJIyl/INGTON, N. 2,. Dominion Museum. Augustus Hamilton, Director. 

 Among the remarkable specimens in which this museum abounds must 

 be mentioned the Cook relics given by Sir A. Oswald, of which we have 

 photographs of the feather-work and some other important matters. Here 

 again, by the movements of steamers, we were limited in time and were un- 

 able to make list of the representative specimens. Fortunately the Director 

 has published some of the Maori matters in his splendid work Maori Art, 

 and in the very useful Bulletins. 



AUCKLAND, N. %. Auckland Museum. Dr.ThomasF. Cheeseman,F.L.S., 



Director. 



We were able to spend more time in this museum than in the other mu- 

 seums of New Zealand, and it is certainly a museum where time may be well 

 spent. Like all the Colonial museums it is natural history, ethnography 

 and art, but the three divisions here do not encroach on each other, and 

 there is prospect that art may be separately housed in the near future. 



Hawaiian Islands. Two small feather kahili; stone pounder, ring 

 pattern; poi-pounder, ulumaika, 4 kapa-markers; finger bowl, very fine; com- 

 mon umeke, calabash, drum, stone bowl. 



New Zealand. Seven coffins, some of them remarkabl) 7 carved (Fig. 

 248); 8 tewhatewha, large number of stone adzes, 3 hoeroa, several well-carved 

 walking-sticks, many stone and wood flax-pounders, several carved staves; 

 18 cloaks, flax, kiwi, dog-skin and pigeon feathers; 10 jade mere, 10 green- 

 stone mere; 5 carved whale-bone patu, 6 plain of the same material, 7 carved 

 wood patu, 5 especially fine wood carved patu, carved wood club, whale-bone 

 club, 4 carved tewhatewha, 6 patiti; 12 taiaha, carved; 2 genealogical sticks; 

 pataka, finely carved and old (Fig. 168); large pataka; Maori house, finest 

 seen; war-canoe more than 80 ft. long, plain canoe; many paddles, 5 plain, 

 3 carved; 8 carved bailers, 2 plain ditto; large collection of Maori fish-hooks, 

 several fish-nets and traps, 7 bone flutes, 4 stone ditto; 2 carved wood flutes, 

 very choice; 2 plain wood flutes, 3 carved war-trumpets, 2 trumpets of large 

 size, 2 carved mouth instruments, 2 mokoed heads, 3 stone hearths, elabor- 

 ately carved bowl; bowl, plain; 4 calabashes, plain; 2 stone bowls. Ancient 

 carved box found in a chief's grave filled with greenstone adzes. Fine old 

 Maori carvings (Spencer); 9 greenstone ear pendants, 24 heitiki, 5 matau, 

 series of bone combs and ornaments, 12 carved feather-boxes, wood basket, 

 5 very fine kumete for preserved birds, 2 pigeon pots, 2 models of canoes, 

 8 carved wood bowls, feather basket, many doorways and prows and sterns 

 of canoes. [460] 



