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MISCELLANEOUS 
[ETHNOGRAPHICAL 
Hatchets, fishing hooks, wooden pillows, tools. Shelf 3. Drums, 
calabashes, nose flutes, bread fruit, and wooden boat scoop. 
Cases 62, 63. Friendly Islands. — Shelf 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. —-Shelf 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. — Shelf 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; tw 7 o 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 chief’s 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. 
