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half a right angle from a straight board, all being in one piece of 

 a kind of hard, white wood unknown to me. The board or seat 

 is eighteen inches long, an inch thick, three inches wide at the 

 end, and four at the elbow. The cone is six inches long, and 

 tapers from two and a half inches at the base to an inch at the 

 summit. On the upper side it is excavated to receive the blade. 

 A spoon-shaped fragment, four inches long and two wide, from 

 the columella of the " karea " shell (Pterocera lambis), ground to 

 a chisel edge on the outer side, constitutes the blade, which is 

 retained in position by interlaced lashing of sinnet, like that of 

 the adze. The weight of this implement is one pound eight ounces. 

 Upon an emergency a twaikarea might be used, I was informed, 

 as a substitute for the toki fasua. 



Somewhat different are the coconut scrapers figured and des- 

 cribed from Matty Island, in German New Guinea.* 



An homologous utensil, " kamdjoo," consisting of an armed stick 

 sloping in a fork stuck in the ground, is recorded from the 

 Lad rones, f 



Of this latter type a specimen from the Marshall Islands, set 

 with a blade of hard coconut shell, is contained in the Australian 

 Museum. This form was probably steadied by the knee when in 

 use. The localities suggest that it will prove a characteristic of 

 Micronesia. 



The article just described is intended only for scraping the 

 kernel of the coconut shell which has become firm and thick with 

 age. Another kind of scraper is used to prepare pap for infants' 

 food from the soft kernel of the half-grown nut. The latter kind 

 seems to be in common use over a wide area and usually takes 

 the shape of a slip of pearl shell an inch or two inches broad and 

 twice as long, having the broader end finely serrated. Some I 

 collected at Mita, Milne Bay, British New Guinea, were called 

 there " kahi." From the Solomons, Edge-Partington figures two 

 examples, J the former from New Georgia being etched pictorially 

 on the concave face. Finsch illustrates another from Finsch- 

 haven, German New Guinea. On Penrhyn Island : " With a 

 piece of mother-of-pearl, called a ' tue,' some six inches long, and 

 tapering to a point, and about two broad at the base, where it is 

 nicked like a saw, they scrape the meat very fine. This they do 

 by placing a half nut between their legs, pressing the edge down 

 with the left thumb, holding the tue like a pen, in the right hand, 



* Edge-Partington Journ. Anthrop. Inst., xxv., 1896, p. 294, pi. xxiv., 

 figs. 7, 8. 



t Freycinet Voyage Uranie et Physicienne, ii., 1829, pp. 313 and 447, 

 pi. Ixxix., fig. 2. 



J Edge-Partington loc. cit., ii., pi. ci., fig. 12 j pi. cxii., fig. 8. 

 Ethnological Atlas, 1880, p. 26, pi. v., fig. 8. 



