that the tuki is far older than the gourd. The smaller gourd was broken by being dropped whilst being carried on horseback, but the tuki is uninjured. Both tukis are made of matai. The tuki, or neck, of the larger calabash is 3 in. from top to bottom where it joins the gourd. Its circumference low down is 15 in. It is slightly bell-mouthed—it is 4 ¾ in. across the mouth, and is larger than most tukis. The other tuki is the same in shape and make, but it is smaller and is attached to a smaller gourd. The interior of each is quite smooth, and at the bottom it is pierced by several holes to fix it to the gourd. The carving of the larger tuki is in whorls like much of the tattooing on a Maori's face, these whorls running round the tuki. The carving is beautifully done in parallel curving lines in groups of three, with between each group a series of small pinnacles arranged symmetrically between each band of three continuous lines. To break up the monotony, at two points opposite each other there are fresh lines running from top to bottom of the collar at right angles to each other. The rim is smooth on top, but its circumference is broken, up by pairs of notches close together, but each pair equidistant from the others. The outside edge, which was originally a circle, has been pared down until it has become a seven-sided figure; the smaller tuki is similarly made into a fourteen-sided figure, but in each case only on the extreme outside edge of the rim. The tukis were always made circular. The smaller tuki is not notched in the rim, and the spiral curves wind uninterruptedly around the body. These tukis seem to be excellent samples of Maori carving carried to its highest point. The gourds, with their rich red-brown colouring, surmounted by these exquisitely carved solid wooden necks, form really beautiful specimens of Maori art, and it is no wonder they were highly prized ornaments at big feasts.

Art. II.—On the Maori Method of preparing and using Kokowai. By Archdeacon Walsh. [Read before the Auckland Institute, 3rd August, 1903.] I have much pleasure in presenting the Auckland Museum with a stone grinding-slab and rubber used by the Maoris of old time in the manufacture of their favourite red pigment generally known as kokowai. The occasion seems to furnish an opportunity for offering a few notes on the subject, in the composition of which I