ARCHEOLOGY — BRIGHAM. 20$ 



Associate in Research No. 2. — Dr. Dean P. Lockwood continued his work 

 in "Renaissance translations from Greek into Latin." The main task for the 

 current year was the compiling of a complete and accurate Hst of all such 

 translations down to the beginning of the sixteenth century. After spending 

 the major part of the year in the Vatican Library with the 30,000 Latin 

 manuscripts, he made a tour of Italy examining other libraries. He expects 

 to publish soon "A preliminary survey of the translations of the fifteenth 

 century, with data for identifying each translation." As an immediate result 

 an article is ready for publication dealing in general with the Renaissance 

 Translation Movement. 



Brigham, William T., Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii. 

 Grant No. 341. Surveying, photographing, and describing the heiau, or 

 ancient stone temples of the Hawaiians, in connection with a treatise on 

 "Ancient Hawaiian Worship." (For previous reports see Year Books 

 Nos. 5, 6, and 7.) $2,500. 



The field-work under the grant has been mainly confined to the island of 

 Molokai, where Mr. J. F. G. Stokes, the curator of Polynesian ethnology, has 

 spent many weeks in surveying the ruined heiau and collecting all possible 

 information about them. The expense has been greater in proportion than 

 on the much larger island of Hawaii, for vegetation has overgrown the ruins 

 far more than on the other islands. Molokai is a long, narrow island lying 

 east to west ; low at the western end, but rising to a height of 4,958 feet to- 

 ward the eastern, where the mountain range is deeply cut by narrow but 

 picturesque valleys, sometimes inaccessible except from the sea, and then only 

 in calm weather. Naturally in these secluded places old customs lingered 

 long, and it was hoped that the memory of traditions clustering about these 

 temples of the old faith might survive in greater strength than on the islands 

 where foreign influence has long been potent. It was also the island where 

 nearly half a century ago an aged priest of the old Hawaiian cult, on the still 

 fairly preserved terraces of the principal temple on the island, the cathedral 

 church, taught the writer more of the ancient liturgy than he has since been 

 able to collect from all other sources. 



The field-work has just terminated and the results are not worked out, but 

 it was made plain that not much was to be learned from the modem Ha- 

 waiians, few in number and little inclined to talk of the discredited faith of 

 their ancestors, although unwittingly giving abundant proof that its fires were 

 merely banked, not extinguished. It was also found that what has been con- 

 sidered the older form of temple, a truncated pyramid, predominated; that 

 phallic worship, by no means dead, has left extensive monuments on this 

 island, and that the frequent wars that swept Molokai as the battle-ground of 

 chiefs of Oahu on the northwest and Maui on the south, while working great 



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