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Show MALLBRT.] NEW ZEALAND MORTUARY EFFIGIES. 201 " Beside my tent, at Tahuahu, on the right bank of the Mangapu, there stood an odd half decomposed figure carved of wood; it was designated tome by the natives as a Tiki, marking the tomb of a chief." The same author states, page 423: " The dwellings of the chiefs at Ohinemutu are surrounded with inclosures of pole- fences; and the Whares and Wharepunis, some of them exhibiting very fine specimens of the Maori order of architecture, are ornamented with grotesque wood- carvings. The annexed wood- cut [ here reproduced as Figure 118] is intended as an illustration of some of them. The gable figure, with the lizard having six feet and two heads, is very remarkable. The human figures are not idols, but are intended to represent departed sires of the present generation." FIG. 117.- New Zealand grave- post. FIG. 118.- New Zealand house poets. CHARMS AND FETICHES. The use of objects as charms and fetiches is well known. Their graphic representation is not so well understood, although in the attempted interpretation of pictographs it is to be supposed that objects |