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70 position of the head. The support under the figure’s left arm is also unusual. This ornament shews signs of long use. Its surface is greatly worn; the legs are broken off; and the original hole has been broken or worn through and a fresh hole has been been bored on the other side of the nose ridge.

The British Museum possesses two curious little greenstone figures of tiki form, shewn in Figure 47, which have the right arms raised to the head. They have the appearance of great age, and are perhaps relics of a time before the form of these ornaments had settled down into the two normal types. It will be