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Identifier: touristsguideton01bost (find matches)
Title: The tourist's guide to Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Publisher: (Boston) J. F. Murphy
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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use and are now a matter of history.Hung up above the reach of children is theMalay Kris. This is a blade used by theislander to simultaneously stab and poison hisenemy. The cast of a Hindoo Princess is seenstanding in a corner. The princess looks as ifshe had seen better days. Behind the princess,so as to reflect a back view of the dilapidateddescendant of royalty, is a looking-glass looyears old, which belonged to the grand-fatherof the Starbuck family. A very formidablearray of war implements hang upon the wall,the heads of many representing some idol. Itis interesting to know that the fine work withwhich these clubs are executed has been ac-complished by shells and stones. Visions ofthe sleepy eyed Celestial present themselve*swhen an old opium pipe is detected layingdown and useless from the effects of time. A species of whale tooth which looks some-thing like a porcupine is a curious object.Through the long deep grooves at the base ofthe tQOtb the whale would strain its food; by
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50 NANTUCKET. its side is the jaw of a deformed sperm whale,broken in the course of a sea-fight. Next, hung along with spears and war clubsis noticed the costume of the ladies of theOcean Islands. It is made of grass and insubstance would make a fair sized wig forhead-gears. The Orka, a cannibal speciesof whale is represented here. This compara-tively small whale is greatly feared by hislarger brethren. Four or five of these whalesgenerally travel together. They select one ofthe larger whales and begin to worry him.Their object is to eat the tongue of the other,and they quite often succeed in their desire.The tongue of a good sized whale will yield 25barrels of oil. The Fiji war-mask which isworn by the natives while indulging in warfareis a hideous head-gear. The face is made offinely carved and colored wood, eyes beingrepresented by an island stone, while moss isarranged around the top, somewhat after the.manner of hair. From the South Ocean iscontributed the albatross. Spears poiso

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