Cook Is. Handicrafts

New Volume by Peter Buck

A LARGE volume, published by the Bishop Museum in Hawaii, has just come to hand. Entitled “Arts and Crafts of the Cook Islands,” it is writ ten by Te Rangi Hiroa (Peter H. Buck), director of the Museum.

Dr. Buck’s experience in the Cooks dates back to 1910, when he spent six months on Rarotonga as a relieving medi cal officer. He re-visited the Cooks in 1926, and again in 1929, when he made a year’s survey of the Group for the Bishop Museum.

The volume, a large one of approxi mately 600 pages, is profusely illustrated with drawings and photographs, and cov ers the whole range of Cook Islands handicrafts.

Every aspect of the Islanders’ arts and crafts is described minutely, with all the anthropological and historical sidelights which make good reading for the layman student of Polynesia. An excellent index and bibliography make it a valuable book of reference.

NOUMEA, Sept. s.—The New Cale donian Administration is alloting a quarter of a million francs from this year’s budget to the fund for French prisoners of war and deportees in Ger many. This brings the total subscribed by the Colony to over two million francs.