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on the side towards which the chin points, rests on the thigh. The eyes in this type are smaller in proportion to the size of the head than those of type A. As a rule it has no ribs. Its tongue, called arero rua, is forked and its teeth are two or three in number. In some cases the navel is shewn. Figures 38-44 illustrate this type. Figure 38 is an example shewing in admirable detail all the characteristics just enumerated.
Figure 39Figure 39 shews a tiki of B type, now in the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Cambridge, with the characteristic double tongue which, however, is of unusual form, being given in relief by the holes at either
Figure 40side of it and going to the chin instead of to the side of the mouth. The little tiki illustrated in Figure 40 is exceptional in having three ribs on the right side. The tiki shewn in Figure 41 indicates a change of motif on the part of the