Memoirs of the Polynesian Society, Volumes 15-16Thomas Avery & Sons Limited, 1943 - Anthropology |
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1ins 2ins 3ins 4ins 5ins 6ins 7ins adze Apocynaceae Artocarpus sp Austral group Authority H.B.R.P. bark base black wood blade boiled Botanical Name Botanical Name Authority bowl Bua Province butt centre Ceremonial adze Club collar Collection Colo West colour Convolvulaceae cord corollas cure cutting-edge dark-brown wood dark-red wood deities diameter Easter island edge Euphorbiaceae eyes feet fern fibre Ficus figures Fiji Name Botanical Fijian name Filices finely carved flowers fruit Gillespie grooves grows Guppy Hawaii head heavy Height holes inlaid known leaves Leguminoseae Length Malvaceae Maori Marquesas medicinal Meliaceae Myrtaceae Nadroga native name Necklet OLDMAN ornamented pierced lug plaited sinnet plant PLATE Pole-spear Polynesian Society ridge Rotuma Rubiaceae Rutaceae seeds shaft shrub side similar small tree Smith sometimes called species specimen Stilt-step Sub-order Sykes Tahiti tapa tapering thick timber Tonga Urticaceae Vanua Levu Verbenaceae Viti Levu vitiensis whale-tooth ivory width yellow