FIGS.

1. Bamboo tobacco-pipes; one-tenth natural size. Torres

Straits. Drawn by the author from specimens in the British

Museum.

2. Rubbing of the handle of a wooden comb; one-half natural

size. Torres Straits. In the author’s possession.

(Original.)

3. Drawings of animals by the natives of Torres Straits; about

one-quarter natural size. (Original.)

A. Jelly-fish; B. Star-fish; C. Hammer headed shark

(_Zygæna_); D. Group of two sharks (_Charcarodon_) and

a turtle; E. Eagle-ray (_Aëtobatis_); F. Sucker-fish

(_Echineis naucrates_); G. Tree-frog (_Hyla cœrulea_); H.

Two snakes on a tobacco-pipe, between them is the hole

in which the bowl is inserted; I. Crocodile (_Crocodilus

porosus_), with footprints; K. Cassowary (_Casuarius_)

pecking at a seed, and footprints, cf. Fig. 4; L. Dolphin

(_Delphinus_); M. Dugong (_Halicore australis_) spouting,

and indications of waves; N. Native dog (_Canis dingo_); O.

Man with a large mackerel-like fish.

A, B, G, H, L, occur on bamboo tobacco-pipes; C, E, I, K, M,

N, O, on drums; D, F, on pearl shells.

A, B, H, I, L, N, O, British Museum; C, E, K, Cambridge; G.

Oxford; D, F, Berlin.

4. Drum from Daudai; 37½ inches long. Sketched by the author

from a specimen in the Cambridge Museum. (Original.)

5. Rubbing of part of the decoration of a bamboo tobacco-pipe,

probably from the mouth of the Fly River; one-third natural

size, in the Liverpool Museum. In the original the lines

show dark on a light ground.

6. Series of arrows from Torres Straits, collected and

sketched by the author, and presented by him to the

Cambridge Museum; one-third natural size. (Original.)

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