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MALEKULA EFFIGY.— JIAMLYN-HAEEIS. 15 
These effigies seem to be entirely restricted to people of importance, and 
doubtless, as previously stated, are chiefs’ monuments,^ the main object of which 
seems to be to perpetuate their memory. 
The Queensland IMuseum effigy measures 5 feet 7 inches in length, with a 
chest measurement of 12^4 inches, and comes in all probability from South-AVest 
Bay. The right arm, which is 321/4 inches in length to the finger-tips, is slightly 
longer than the left arm, which only measures 30’^/4 inches, and each hand holds 
the jawbone of a favourite i)ig which has been sacrificed at his death, to enable 
the spirits to accompany their master through the shades of Lelemis, the spirit- 
world of these strange people. 
The Queensland Museum is indebted to Airs. Belbin, widow of Captain 
Belbin, Boro Belle ” schooner, one of the old Queensland labour vessels, for 
this intex’csting donation. 
‘Edge Partington, Plate 55, Ethnographical Album of the Pacific Islands, 3rd series, 
August, 1898. 
