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Hatchets, fishing hooks, wooden pillows, tools. Shelf 3. Drums, 
calabashes, nose flutes, bread fruit, and wooden boat scoop. 
Cases 62, 63. Friendly Islands.—S helf 1. Baskets, wooden 
dishes. Shelf 2. Combs, bracelets, necklaces, nose flute. Shelf 3. 
Wooden idols from various parts of Polynesia. 
Cases 64, 65. Friendly Islands.—S helf 1. Basket of cocoa-nut 
fibre, chequer pattern; another of cocoa-nut fibres and shell, inlaid with 
tortoise-shell; four baskets or bags of cocoa-nut fibres and tortoise-shell; 
two cylindrical baskets of the same ; one globular basket of the same ; 
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 
stones with cyprea or cowrie shells, to sink a net; safe, consisting 
of a plate with pendent pieces of wood and hooks for attaching food 
baskets, and with figures painted on it; two rasps made of shark’s skin; 
small hatchet, with a bone blade ; another with a blade of green jade ; 
and two others with blades of shell; two clubs; tatooing instru¬ 
ments ; knitting needle; bone instrument; six Pandsean pipes; idol 
of whalebone or ivory; idol, attached to a kind of cowrie shell; piece of 
stick, with four cowries. Shelf 3. Casting net; landing net, for large 
fish ; two wooden head-rests or pillows; strip of the paper mulberry 
prepared for making cloth. Presented by Sir Everard. Home , Bart., 
R.N. Two girdles, one for dancing, of cocoa-nut fibre, birds’ tails, 
&c.; six open net girdles of cocoa-nut fibre, one of a dun colour; spe¬ 
cimen of paper mulberry, fawn colour; three specimens of cloth of 
paper mulberry, with patterns in maroon, black and white colour; stick 
from the same. From the Friendly Islands. 
Cases 66, 67. Navigator Islands.—S helf 1. A short club 
with conical and pointed head, from Tonga Island; two others with 
head in shape of hawks’ bills, from the Isle of Pines; two clubs, 
one ornamented with a kind of native fringe round the handle, and 
one spindle-shaped, from Tanna; various other clubs from the 
same islands; bows and arrows from Euramengo, or Erramango, and 
Navigators’ Islands. Shelf 2. Tortoise-shell bonnet, in imitation of an 
European one, made of thin plates of shell sewed together, and trimmed 
with part of a cotton stuff*; comb with four teeth ; above a band ; two 
combs similar; two fly-flaps; two feather ornaments; two hemp 
brushes or fly-flaps, one coloured black, the other white; net, with 
bark for floats, and shell for leads; fishing line ; two fishing lines 
and hooks ; tobacco pipe ; wooden smoother or rasp, with shark 
skin, from Navigators’ Islands : bamboo comb ; New Caledonia. 
Presented by HER MAJESTY. Two leaf-shaped combs, one pre¬ 
sented by Capt. Sir E. Belcher, R.N. Two spear loops ; hatchet, blade 
of green jade {nephrite), from New Caledonia; bunch of chiefs hair, 
from the Island of Tanna. All the above objects presented by HER 
MAJESTY. Another bunch of hair, from Tanna. Presented by 
J. Bennet, Esq. Shelf 3. A wooden image, household god of a chief; 
four pieces of cloth of the paper mulberry, stained of a maroon colour. 
