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hting-ilage wear almofl unlverfally the gorget or breafl-plate,,. 

 called ta-dmee,MktwKe made of wicker-work, covered with femi- 

 circular lifts of coco*nut fibres, which.again are bedecked with 

 iliirting glofiy pigeons feathers, fet off with two or three femi-cir- 

 cular rows of fharks-teeth, all which are bored and faftened to the 



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breaft-plate hj ftHngs ; the whole gorget is fringed witli long 

 white dogs hair, imported from the Low-iiles to O-Taheitee, and 

 the Sodety-illes -, on the top there are likewife mother of pearl 



fhells, friiiged witi 



V pigeons feathers ;. this breaft-plate is hung 

 on the neck by a ftring,..and defends ■ the breaft againft the thruft of. 



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Uiaking thefe war-dreftes requires very curious and dextrous wjork-- 

 manftiip,, and likewife a good deal of time and patience. 



The man u fad u ring various bafkets, ftools, cloth-beaters, . and . 

 other utenfils,, tools, and inftruments,. in ufe among thefe nations, 







is fo multifarious, that a minute defcription of them would requii-e 

 too much time j we muft not therefore enter, upon the detail, but. 

 will confine ourfelves to a brief defcription of the third great 



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* A good and faithful rcprcfcntation of one of thefe breaft-plates^may be iten in^ Hawkef-"-- 

 worth's Compilation, vol. li. p. ig4j plate No. S, drawn and eiagraved .by Mr, James" 



