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Title: Handbook to the ethnographical collections
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942 Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945
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Publisher: (London) : Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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nd Easter Island a feather coronet was in use. The gorgeouscloaks and helmets from Hawaii are tlie most conspicuous ex-amples of Polynesian feather-work (fig. 132). In some groups, asfor instance in Hawaii and Tahiti, the natives wore necklaces andwreaths of flowers. 1 ^^^^^^s mmmm^ f- 1 ^^H /ll -■-^ ^^ m > ^ i <^B ■ ^1 J i^k^H^^. m * ■■ . ,i».«<.- Fig. 132.—Cloak of red and yellow featheis worn liy men of rank.Hawaii. As the Polynesians were without metal, the materials availablefor the manufacture of implements and weapons were limited tostone, shell, bone, wood, and teeth. Far the most important im-plement was the adze, the edge of which was invariably ground.Witli this stone adze the greater part of the canoo building andwood-carving was done (figs. 5, 9, 12S, 133, and 131). In the aljsence of pottery, food and water vessols were made ofwood (fig. 143) or gourds. The most important domestic in-dustries were the manufacture of tapa, and the plaiting of mats for
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Fig. 133.—Types of stone adze-blades from Polynesia.b. Marquesas Islands, c. Hervey Islands. (L Samoa.Zealand (found associated with remains of the moa). h. Chatham Islands.Zealand. «. Tongan Islands. e. Tahiti. /. New g. Easter Island. A. Hawaiian Islands. I. New Zealand (jade), m. New POLYNESIANS AND MICRONESIANS 153 bedding, for hangings, or for canoe-sails. Canoe-makers andhouse-builders formed in many cases a kind of caste, andwere men of a certain rank. The principal weapon of Poljaiesia was the club of hard woodmade in very various shapes, and often finely carved (figs. 185and 146). Next in importance were spears (fig. 137) and daggersor knives, the latter sometimes edged with sharks teeth, as inHawaii (fig. 136). Tlie bow was not a serious weapon ; it wasfound in some islands, e.g. in Tahiti and Tonga, but was princi-pally used for killing rats or in shooting-matches. It was of the plain variety; the arrows were without feathers, and tippedwith bone or wood. The principalmi

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