10 
MISCELLANEOUS 
[ETHNOGRAPHICAL 
pigment, with rattles used by the Patagonian Indians, a quiver, some 
arrows and bow, the rope of a canoe, a necklace formed of shells, and 
an axe, the iron of which was probably obtained from an English or 
American ship, from Terra del Fuego. 
Cases 38 — 51. Containing various British and Mediaeval antiquities, 
temporarily deposited in this room, and in the course of arrangement. 
Cases 5*2 — 72. Containing various objects from the South Seas and 
Australia. 
Otaheite winter and summer cloths, made of the bark of the paper 
mulberry (Broussonetia), and variously dyed.- — A mourning dress; a 
breast-plate made of feathers, &c., used in war. Coarse mats for sails, 
&c. Basket-work and cordage.—Ornamental mats made of a kind of 
flag ; a dancing apron, &c., from Otaheite. Fishing implements. Various 
utensils made of a basaltic stone; rasps made of shagreen ; wooden 
pillows; adzes of a kind of jade called axe-stone, &c.— Ornamental 
carvings; cioth-beater ; plaited hair ; tatooing instruments; a planting 
spade made of a fragment of a shield; nose flutes ; a bread fruit. Various 
stone adzes, hatchets, &c. Large cloaks; aprons; helmets ; hats; 
distorted human figures ; &c., made of feathers. From the Sandwich 
Islands. Various specimens of mats and cloths ; gorgets made of red 
seeds, &c. Cordage; slings; cloth-beaters ; hair for ornamental head¬ 
dresses. Fishing-hooks made of bones and shells; saws made of sharks’ 
teeth; and other tools. From the Sandwich Islands. 
Articles of ornament; bracelets made of boars’ tusks, and of tortoise¬ 
shell ; assortment of shells and seeds, &c. Necklaces, and other orna¬ 
ments. Coverings for the legs, composed of shells, seeds, and teeth, 
used in dancing; round mirrors made of a black slaty stone, which is 
wetted when used; quoits, weights, &c. From the Sandwich Islands. 
Small cloaks, a head-dress, and other ornaments made of feathers ; a 
specimen of the species of creeper ( Certhia vestiaria) which supplies 
the red feathers. Fans ; wooden bowls supported by grotesque figures 
for ornament. Mostly from the Marquesas. 
Objects, chiefly cloth and utensils, from Otaheite; carved paddle from 
Otaheite; bread made of the root of the casada tree (a species of 
Jatrapa,) with an unprepared piece of the latter; a stone club from the 
Egmont Island, used for bruising nuts, and three fine mats. 
Specimens of cloth, matting, and cordage. Basket-work, plain and 
ornamented; sun-screens, — ornamental basket-work; various pouches; 
a dancing-dress made of the fibres of the bark of cocoa-nuts. From 
the Friendly Islands. Fishing implements, hooks, and various nets; 
models of canoes; adzes; tatooing instruments ; rasps, Sec. Various 
articles of ornament; necklaces made of shells, seeds, &c. ; combs; 
bracelets ; kernels of a nut which, when burnt, yields a strong light. 
Aprons, and other ornaments, made of the thigh-bones of a small bird; 
nasal flutes; fly-flaps; a shuttle, &c. Various Cava bowls of wood, 
curiously carved ; some earthen vessels, &c. From the Friendly Islands. 
Various specimens of matting and cordage, mostly made of the New 
Zealand hemp (Phormium tenax). Sundry woven articles, belts, &c. 
Fishing nets, hooks, cordage, &c. Articles of ornament; combs, neck¬ 
laces, &c. Specimens of carving in wood and bone; pipes, and other 
musical wind instruments. Warlike instruments ; conchs used in war; 
clubs; saws made of sharks’ teeth for dissecting the bodies of slain ene- 
