8 MISCELLANEOUS [ETHNOGRAPHICAL 
supported by grotesque figures for ornament. Mostly from the 
Marquesas. 
Cases 49, 50. Objects, chiefly cloth and utensils, from Tahiti. 
Cases 51, 52. 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, &c. 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. 
Cases 53, 54. Various specimens of matting and cordage, mostly 
made of the New Zealand hemp ( Phormium tenax). Sundry woven 
articles; belts, &e. Fishing nets; hooks, cordage, &c. Articles of 
ornament; combs, necklaces, &c. Specimens of caning 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 enemies; two human hands, being 
parts of the body of a slain enemy. Tools of various kinds, &c. 
Various wooden boxes, ornamented with carvings. Boat scoops, 
&c. From New Zealand. Liku, or petticoat worn by the women 
of the Feejees. Presented by R. Brinsley Hinds, R. N., 1842. 
Four stones for grinding corn, from Australia. Presented by Cap¬ 
tain G. Grey, Governor of South Australia, 1840. A New 
Zealand kite. Presented by Mr. Read, 1843. 
Cases 55, 56. Contain specimens of native cloth, some used by 
females as girdles to incircle the waist, their only clothing in these 
Islands, of a maroon colour, or else cream white, with a pattern 
rudely delineated, representing crosses, stars, &c. Besides these are a 
shaggy white mat used for the same purpose made of fibre, and 
sleeping mats of rushes plaited to various degrees of fineness, from the 
islands of New Caledonia, Navigators’ Islands, &c. 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 Navi¬ 
gators’ Islands; beneath these are plumes of feathers and combs 
from the same locality ; the leaf-shaped comb, and its companion, 
are from N. Hebrides, and the bamboo comb, for the back hair, from 
New Caledonia. The specimen 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 un¬ 
coloured, the other stained black, also from Navigators’ Islands. A 
hatchet, with a celt-shaped blade, made from a piece of green jade, or 
nephrite, with a tobacco-pipe of wood from New Caledonia. In the 
low ? er division are two fishing lines and hooks, with artificial baits, from 
