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A tiki, now in the Salford Museum, illustrated in Figure 43, is noteworthy in having little cuts on its hands, as if to denote the joints of the fingers and thumbs. It is drawn here in

An illustration of a B type tiki showing small cuts on the fingers as if to show finger joints.
Figure 43

outline to make this peculiarity more clearly visible. The tiki shewn in Figure 44 is an admirable example of the B type. It was presented to Colonel Mundy, the author of Our Antipodes,