14 MISCELLANEOUS [ETHNOGRAPHICAL 
necklaces, from Lord Mulgrave’s Island; necklaces. Shelf 3. Mat 
girdle of the king of Roatonga ; three specimens of cloth, coloured 
black and white, of the paper mulberry from Roatonga ; three female 
summer and three winter dresses, from Oparaa; entire dress of the 
queen of Whitsuntide Island; man’s dress made of fine mat, from 
Anaa, or the Chain Island ; five specimens of cloth, made of the paper 
mulberry tree, coloured maroon, yellow, and white; two others co- 
loured red; and two others coloured white; from Pitcairn Island; 
all the above objects presented by Hugh Cuming , Esq. Three bands 
of matting used as maros, and a stone club for bruising the nuts of the 
Pandamis ; from Egmont Island. Presented by Captain Beesley, B..N. 
Cases 53, 54. Various sun fans and specimens of basket work ; 
wooden bowls, supported by grotesque figures ; bracelets, aprons, and 
other ornaments made of the thigh, bones of a small bird ; bracelets 
made of boars’ tusks and tortoise shelL; fishing implements ; various 
utensils made of a basaltic stone; gorgets made of red reeds; necklace 
and other ornaments ;, coverings for the leg made of shells, reed, and 
teeth, used in dancing ; round mirrors, made of a. black slaty stone, 
wetted when used ; quoits, weights, &c. ; fishing hooks, made of bone 
and shells; saws made of sharks’ teeth, and other tools; specimen of 
cloth, made of the paper mulberry ( Broussonetia), used for winter and 
summer clothes. From the Marquesas and Sandwich Isles. 
Cases 55, 56. Shelf 1. Three grotesque heads made of red fea- 
thers of the certhia vestiaria, shells, &c., worshipped as idols; smaller 
kind, of wood; four helmets, imitating in shape those of the Greeks and 
Romans, made of the same red, black, and yellow feathers ; collar of the 
same; two collars of several eyes tied together. Shelf 2. Elegant 
cloak of red and yellow feathers ; three collars or tippets of the same 
pattern and colour; another cloak of red and yellow, and with feathers; 
three tippets of similar feathers ; tippet, smaller, of black and yellow 
feathers; three feather ornaments; five collars of similar ornaments; 
two bundles of similar feather ornaments; two muffs or breast-plates of 
the same; four fly-flaps of red feathers and cocoa nut; the bird cer- 
thia vestiarii, of whose feathers these ornaments are made. The above 
objects are from the Sandwich Islands. 
Case 57. War- dress made of feathers, mother-of-pearl, cocoa nut 
fibre, and mulberry cloth ; from Tahiti. 
Cases 58—63. Miscellaneous and unarranged objects. 
Cases 64, 65. Shelf 1. Square basket of cocoa nut fibre, chequer 
pattern; another of cocoa nut fibres and shell, inlaid with tortoise shell; 
four baskets, bags, or reticules of cocoa nut fibres and tortoise shell; *> 
two cylindrical baskets of the same ; one globular basket of the same ; s 
oval basket, with vandyked patterns, of the same ; globular basket, with- 
out shells ; basket of coarse construction, with a cover ; three baskets of 
rushes; two head shades ; ball of cocoa nut rope. Shelf 2. Four coils 
of rope of cocoa nut fibre ; eight hanks of rope of cocoa nut fibre ; 
three models of canoes, with outriders,, like Malay proas, one pre- 
sented by Capt. Sir E. Belcher, R.N.; thirty-six various hooks in 
imitation of artificial fish, made of mother-of-pearl and feathers ; two jj 
stones with cyprea or cowrie shells, to sink a net ; safe, consisting 
of a plate with pendant pieces of wood and hooks for attaching food < 
baskets, and with figures painted on it; two rasps made of shark’s skin ; i 
