on the other is the head of the Eatooa, or God, finely 

 carved These wands are carried by the priests, and 

 sometimes by another person particularly appointed 

 to that office, who is called Tonata (or the Taboo 

 Man). They are made use of on various occasions, 

 both pubhc and private, and aijy thing touched by 

 them is considered as prohibited or forbidden. The 

 word Taboo, used emphatically to denote any thing 

 sacred, eminent, or devoted. When a particular 

 space of ground is tabooed, several of these rods or 

 wancis, tufted with dou's hair, are fixed up, and until 

 they are removed, no person will presume to tread on 

 that ground. Otaheite. 



Different kinds of long War Clubs used in the 

 Friendly Islands. These are made oi wood, equal in 

 hardness to the Brazi'ian, and superior in beauty to 

 mahogany; and when it is remembered that iron and 

 steel are wholly unknown to these people, few speci- 

 mens, for laborious and skilful workmanship, can vie 

 with them. The carving, though executed with no 

 other instrument than a shell, a shark's tooth, or a 

 flint, by dint of industry and ingenuity is perfectly 

 uniform in pattern, and highly ornamental. 



Paddle or Oar, with M^hich the natives of the 

 Friendly Islands row their canoes. It is about five 

 feet long, and six inches across the widest part, and 

 yet is so light as to weigh little more than a pound. 



Various kinds of short Hand Clubs, or Pattapatloos, 

 of different forms and materials. They are worn by 

 the natives of the South Seas, in the same manner as 

 daggers are worn by the Asiatics, and are usually 

 made of hard wood, bone, green jade stone, or ba- 

 saltes. 



A Knife, from the Sandwich Islands, made of wood, 

 edged with shark's teeth, used by the natives of those 

 islands for cutting up their enemies taken in battle. 



