2/0 Mcinoiis Bcmicc P. Bishop Muscuui 



Thanks for kindness and hearty cooperation are due to nianv European 

 residents in the Marquesas, especially to M. Du Poyen de Belleisle, Administra- 

 tor of the group, j\I. Paul Vernier and Mr. Frank \'arney of Atuona, Fere 

 Simeon Delmar, of Taiohae, and Mr. Henry Lie of Fua ]\Ia'u. 



Thanks are also due to Miss Ruth Greiner who has assisted in the making 

 of drawings and in the preparation of those parts of the report which deal with 

 Marquesan design; to Mr. W. C. IMcKern, who has furnished information on 

 Tonga: to Dr. A. B. Lewis, who has furnished information on Melanesia; and to 

 the authorities of the Feahody IMuseum of Salem, Mass. ; the Feabody Museum 

 of Harvard University; the American Museum of Natural History; the Museum 

 of the University of Fennsylvania; the Academy of Natural Sciences, Fhiladelphia, 

 the L'nited States National Museum and the Field Museum of Natural 

 History, who have ottered every facility for the study of their Oceanic 

 collections. 



The use made of photographs recciAcd from various sources is acknowl- 

 edged in the legends accompanying the plates. Except as otherwise indicated, the 

 illustrations are based on material in the Bernice Fauahi Bishop Museum. 



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