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These procedures afford a remarkably complete series 

 of links with the " heliolithic " cult as practised elsewhere 

 in the west and east. The account of the curious attach- 

 ment of the heads to the shoulders of the dummy figure 

 throw some light upon the custom (to which I have 

 referred elsewhere in this communication) in Mallicolo 

 (61, p. 138) and in America of representing human faces 

 on the shoulders of such models. It is a remarkable fact 

 that in certain of the Mallicolo figures the phallus is 

 fixed to the girdle in a very curious manner, exactly 

 analogous to that recently described and figured by 

 Blackman from an Egyptian tomb of the Middle King- 

 dom at Meir. 



Embalming was a method rarely employed in New 

 Zealand. 



" After the extraction of the softer parts, oil or salt 

 was rubbed into the flesh, and the body was dried in the 

 sun or over a fire ; then the mummy was wrapped in 

 cloth and hidden away." 



" In some parts of New Zealand the skeletons of 

 mummified bodies are found in the crouching or sitting 

 posture" (Macmillan Brown, 7, P- 70). 



In Schmidt's JalirbiicJier der gesammten Median, 1890, 

 Bd. 226, p. 175, there is an abstract of an article on Samoa 

 by P. Burzen in which, among other things, the three 

 Egyptian operations of circumcision, massage and mum- 

 mification are described as being practiced. 



The embalming is done by women. After removing 

 the viscera, which are buried or burnt, the eviscerated 

 corpse is then soaked for two months in coco-nut oil, 

 mixed with vegetable juices. When the body is fully 

 treated and no more fluid escapes from it, the hair which 

 had previously been cut off, is stuck on again with a 

 resinous paste. The body cavity is packed with cloth 



