i4 MISCELLANEOUS [ETHNOGRAPHICAL 
Cases 38—50. Various British and Medieval antiquities, tempora- 
rily deposited in this room. _ c ,, 
Cases 51, 52. Shelf 1. Six elaborately carved paddles, from the 
Livavai, or Hi Island ; boat scoop of similar construction, for baling 
water out of a canoe; two shell trumpets, from Anaa, or Chain 
Island Shelf 2. Six idols in the shape of the human form ; right hand 
and arm carved; three obsidian chisels; rope of human hair from 
Easter Island; feather epaulet; judge’s cap of feathers ; four feather 
earrings ; plaited human hair, from Annaa, or the Cham Island ; two 
caps of conical shape, with feathers externally ; interior of feather cap ; 
chiefs fly flap, from the island of Toubonai ; two hatchet heads, from 
Pitcairn Island ; fish hook and line ; bundle of fish hooks, from the 
Society’s Islands ; another bundle of fish hooks from Oparaa ; shell 
necklaces, from Lord Mulgrave’s Island ; necklaces. Shelf o> 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 or the 
Pandanus • from Egmont Island. Presented by Captain Beesley, B.JS. 
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 unarranged objects. 
Cases 64, 65. Shelf 1. Square basket of cocoa-nut fibre, chequer 
