PLATK 30. 



Bark-cloth from thk Soi.omox Islands. 



These curious figures, apparently of a dugong or some allied form, are painted 

 in light blue ou a dirty white cloth (B. M. 8264). The same number (five) appears 

 on another similar cloth from the same locality (B. M. 8267), hut here the color is 

 a much deeper blue, more like No. 7 iu color plate BB. The figures between the 

 animal rows seem to be hooks or some similar implement and may indicate that so 

 many of the animals were captured. Reduced to one-fifth of the original size. 



