107 early material that the museum holds includes eighteenthcentury South Seas artifacts, and several experts2 concur that these objects were collected by Captain James Cook, probably on his third voyage. From Hawaii, they include a taboo stick, an ornamental peahi fan, an openwork kupee hookalakala bracelet, an ihe or ihe laumake spear, and a packet of material made of fi g tree fi ber. There are also fourteen samples and fragments of decorated Hawaiian kapa cloth, as well as fi ve fragments with other provenances (Fiji, Tahiti, Tonga, etc.). From Tonga there are a trolling hook with an ipa or ba yaloyalo leader line, an akau-ta or apa‘apai club, and four helu combs. A New Zealand matau hook for use with bait completes the group (Kaehr 2000). MEN’s Marquesan objects drew the attention of Rev. Fr. Patrick O’Reilly while he was engaged in “research on the Oceanic material in public Swiss collections” that involved cursory visits to eight institutions. His “Note sur les collections océaniennes des musées d’ethnographie de la Suisse” (Notes on the Oceanic Collections in Swiss Ethnographic Museums), which was published after World War Two in the Journal de la Société des Océanistes (1946: 109–127), shows that he was well aware of the limitations of his survey, but he does devote several pages to MEN. Marquesas Islands—This archipelago is well represented in Neuchâtel by objects that come primarily from two collections. One is old. In the course of his trip around the world, a well-to-do man from Neuchâtel acquired a series of Marquesan objects in Lima, from the captain of a Peruvian ship who had brought them there upon his return from the archi-
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