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of the largest box is more a matter of 

 accident than of design. This box is 

 further exceptional in having a square 

 piece of wood neatly let into the centre 

 of the floor. Probably the tree which 

 furnished the material was decayed at 

 the core, and it was thus that the 

 defect was remedied. 



Two similar specimens vary from the 

 foregoing in having nosupports beneath, 

 and no cleat on the summit of the lid. 

 Instead the lugs on the box are con- 

 tinued into a pair on the lid, which latter 

 is perfectly flat above. Both pairs are 

 pierced by holes which continue from the 

 lid through the box and through which 

 a cord of Broussonetia is rove, these lugs serve therefore as running 

 cleats. The taller box-tub is drawn on fig. 63 as open and closed, 

 with the under aspect of the lid apart ; the closed one is seen to 

 be fastened in the native fashion by twisting the cord round the 

 side. It is seven inches high, six and a half in basal diameter, 

 weighs two pounds, and has a capacity of ninety-seven cubic 

 inches, the sides are straight but the bottom is somewhat 

 rounded. The other specimen differs in proportions and in 

 having a flat base. It is five and three-quarter inches both in 

 height and in basal diameter, and five and a half inches in least 

 diameter across the lid, weighs one pound fifteen ounces, and con- 

 tains fifty-nine cubic inches. 



A third form of tourouma, shown by 

 fig. 64, is intermediate in features between 

 the others. It has a central running cleat 

 on the lid like the first described, but those 

 on the box are set half-way down the side 

 and at right angles to those previously con- 

 sidered. The base is fairly flat and without 

 feet. The lid has without a bevelled edge, 

 and within a central excavation and a sub- 

 marginal groove to receive the flange of the 

 box. This box-tub is taller in proportion 

 to breadth than the others and also tapers 

 more upwards. From base to top of cleat is eight inches, the 

 base is six and a half inches in diameter, and the top five and a 

 half. It weighs one pound eleven ounces, and holds seventy-five 

 cubic inches. 



WOODEN DISHES. 



These necessary and valued utensils are possessed by every 

 household and are made in diverse sizes and shapes. The absence 



Fig. 64. 



