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Objects from the South Sea Islands, presented by 
HER MAJESTY, 1841. 
ROOM I. 
Case 34. 
The upper part of this Case contains a short club, with 
conical and pointed head, from Tonga Island, and two 
others with heads in the shape of hawks’ bills, from the Isle 
of Pines. At the side of the Case is another club. In 
the centre are bows and arrows from Euramengo, or 
Erromango and Navigators’ Islands, and loops used in 
projecting spears from Navigators’ Islands; beneath these 
are plumes of feathers and combs from the same lo¬ 
cality ; the leaf-shaped comb, and its companion, are 
from N. Hebrides, and the bamboo comb, for the back 
hair, from New Caledonia. The specimens of chiefs’ 
hair, showing the mode in which it is worn by the natives, 
is from Navigators’ Islands. Two fly-flaps, or fans of 
fibres, one stained black, from the same place, and a 
wood-smoother, or plane, and two fans, composed of 
fibres, one uncoloured, the other stained black, also from 
Navigators’ Islands. A hatchet, with a celt-shaped blade, 
adapted for insertion at an angle into the hand, and made 
from a piece of green jade, or nephrite, with a tobacco- 
pipe of wood from New Caledonia. In the lower di¬ 
vision are two fishing lines and hooks, with artificial 
baits, from Navigators’ Islands ; a net, with broken shells 
instead of leads to sink it, and small bundles of the bark 
of a tree for floats, from New Caledonia. A wooden idol, 
the household god of a chief’s family, from Navigators’ 
Islands ; and a jar, or vase of red earthenware, from 
Fidjee, or Feeje Island. At the sides of the Case are 
two clubs, one ornamented with a kind of native fringe 
of a red colour round the handle, and one spindle-shaped, 
from Tanna Island. 
In Case 33, are various specimens of native cloth, some 
used by females as girdles to incircle the waist, their only 
