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PLATE V

Carved end of a long staff, once wrapped in a great roll of tapa, or bark-cloth, and representing one of the great gods in the island of Rarotonga, Cook Group. It is probable that the deity is Rongo and his three sons. Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts.