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figures from New Granada and Ecuador; (Cases 43, 44), bows and 
arrows, dresses, and other objects from Patagonia and Tierra del 
Fuego. 
Cases 45-48. New Zealand. — Upper Shelf, kite, spears, chiefs' 
staves (hani), and carvings in wood. Middle Shelf, series of war- 
clubs (meri) in stone, wood, and bone ; adzes and chisels of jade and 
other stones ; breast ornaments (tikis) of jade and human bone ; fish- 
hooks, nose-flutes, and a number of historical relics of the New Zea- 
landers ; the latter collected and presented by Sir George Grey, K.C.B. 
Lower Shelf, carved wooden boxes used by the New Zealand chiefs to 
keep feather ornaments, model of canoe, and cloaks of chiefs. 
Cases 49, 50. Samoa and Tonga Islands. — Upper Shelf, basket 
of various kinds. Middle Shelf, combs, pillows, club^, fish-hooks, and 
personal ornaments. Lower Shelf, dresses, model of canoe, &c. 
Cases 51-61. Polynesia. — Cases 51, 52. Upper Shelf, elaborately- 
carved paddles from High Island, and head-dresses. Middle Shelf, 
stone adzes in carved wooden handles, from Mangaia, fish-hooks, and 
shell trumpets. Lower Shelf, dresses and mats. Cases 53, 54. 
Upper Shelf, gorget from Tahiti, stone pounders for breadfruit. 
Middle Shelf, axes of stone, set in wooden handles, idols, etc. Lower 
Shelf, specimens of cloth (tapa) made from the inner bark of the 
Broussonetia papyrifera and other trees. Cases 55-57. Feather 
dresses and idols from the Sandwich Islands ; dress of a monrner 
from Tahiti; suit of armour, made of cocoa-nut fibre, from the Kings- 
mill Islands. Cases 58, 59. Upper Shelf, idols and vessels of wood 
from the Sandwich Islands. Middle Shelf, dancing buskins, stones 
for a game (malm), and ornaments ; chiefly from the Sandwich Islands. 
Lower Shelf, tapa cloth, and beaters used in making it. Cases 60, 61. 
Fans from the Marquesas, and weapons, set with sharks' teeth, from 
the Kingsmill Islands. Middle Shelf, ornaments from the Marquesas ; 
inlaid box from the Pelew Islands; wooden figures and obsidian tools 
from Easter Island. Lower Shelf, mats and dresses. 
Cases 62-71. Melanesia. — Upper Shelf, bows and arrows from 
the New Hebrides and Fiji Islands, and pottery from the latter. 
Middle Shelf, clubs, pottery, and a head-rest from the Fiji Islands. 
Lower Shelf, tapa cloth, grass dresses and wooden vessels from the 
Fiji Islands. Cases 64, 65. Upper Shelf, bows and arrows and 
wooden vessel from the Salomon Islands. Middle Shelf, implements 
of jade, combs, clubs, and ornaments from New Caledonia. Lower 
Shelf, drums from New Guinea. Cases 66-71. Collections from New 
Guinea and Darnley Island, many of them obtained by Capt. Owen 
Stanley during the voyage of H. M. S. Rattlesnake. Upper Shelf, 
spears from New Guinea and Australia, and baskets. Middle Shelf, 
shield, axes and adzes of stone and shell, head-rests, model of boat, 
personal ornaments, wigs, and masks. Lower shelf, bows and arrows, 
fishing apparatus, and portions of carved canoes. 
Cases 72-74. Australia. — Upper Shelf, boomerangs, clubs, and 
shields. Middle Shelf, throwing-sticks, shields, hatchets of stone set 
