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and tied together at the proximal end (fig. 57). Its weight is 



fifteen ounces, length a yard, 



and diameter of the handle 



an inch and a half. Not only 



the interior of the houses 



but all the village streets are 



regularly swept by the women, Fig. 57. 



and kept neat and tidy. Many 



Europeans might copy with advantage from Funafuti; indeed 



during a residence of some years in the South of Europe I never 



met a French or Italian village where cleanliness was so thoroughly 



enforced. 



FAN. 



On Funafuti and Nukulailai I saw several elegant forms of 

 fans, both plain and coloured. These patterns are all recently 

 introduced from Samoa by the Native Teachers 

 of the London Missionary Society, replacing 

 the rougher fans of earlier days, which have 

 nearly disappeared. A specimen of the real 

 old-fashioned fan of Funafuti, "igli," was 

 kindly presented to me by Mr. O'Brien. 

 This (fig. 58) is heart-shaped, of plaited coco- 

 nut pinnules, the ends gathered into a handle ; 

 it is two and a half ounces in weight, eighteen 

 inches in length including the handle, and 

 thirteen wide. The fan-shaped leaf of the Fig. 58. 



Pritchardia palm is perhaps the model upon 

 which such a fan was formed. The Samoan fly -flap was not 

 employed on Funafuti. 



PILLOWS. 



The pillow appears in the Pacific in two widely different forms, 

 one that of the wooden head-rest, the other that of the mat 

 cushion. By far the most common is the former, which is found 

 from the furthest western station of the Papuans to the remotest 

 eastern settlement of the Polynesians. In shape it ranges from a 

 solid wooden block to a bar of bamboo mounted on wooden feet. 

 Each race has treated it according to its idiosyncracies ; the artistic 

 Melanesian has tastefully carved and painted his, especially in 

 New Guinea, where it is embellished by conventionalised animals 

 whose limbs form appropriate supports ; the simple Samoan is 

 content with plain neat articles, while the more progressive 

 Tongan elaborates designs on his ; the crudest and roughest 

 articles with which I am acquainted being the head-rest from the 

 Ellice we are about to consider. 



The name of both cushion and head-rest was given to me as 

 " alunga," but in Funafuti I saw only the head-rest in use. A 

 distinctive feature of Ellice Island work is its crudity and entire 



