Occasional papers of Bernice P. Bishop Museum

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assistance was received from the distinguished Direcftor both in ex-
amining" specimens and in procuring photographs and plates.
In the museum of Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand, at the time in
process of arrangement by Herr Heger for public exhibition in one
of the ducal palaces, are many fine things from New Caledonia ob-
tained by H. R. H. the Archduke during a recent cruise in the Pa-
cific Ocean. Among the objects were many spears, arrows, and clubs
in piles and not accessible, and the following:
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2 Death-masks and several car^^ed wood faces
for the same. Used at the funeral of a Chief.
Many fiat disk greenstone clubs with wooden
handles and in some a rattle at the hand end.
The disks often 8 to lo inches in diameter and
well polished. Fig. 15. Club of common form,
but with a curved handle not seen elsewhere, see
Fig. 16. A conical implement of greenstone
bound with a cord handle. Fig. 17. Jade beads
both spherical and cylindrical. Many spears and
arrows. 2 Adzes of jade set in a solid head in
one piece with the handle. Fig. 18. Many ord-
Fig. 15. inary adzes from
New Guinea and the Solomon Is-
lands. Many fine things from
eastern Asia.
Fig. 18. Fig. 17. Fig. 16.
In the Natural History Department of the Vienna Museum
is a fine series of Dinornis bones.
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