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A NATURALIST ON THE " CHALLENGER 



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The Hawaian gods, made of wicker-work, covered with 

 feathers, show a similar curving inwards of the face. I give a 

 rough sketch of one in the British Museum collection. In one 



1 3 2 



HAWAIAN GODS. 



] and 2 Heads of gods made of wickerwork, covered with feathers. 1 From "Cook's Third 

 Voyage"; 2 Sketch of a specimen in the British Museum; 3 Entire god, copied 

 from Ellis's "Narrative." 



figured in " Cook's Voyages,"* the face is entirely hollowed out, 

 and the eyes are borne on small flaps, projecting from the hook- 

 shaped back part of the image, which mainly represents the 

 well-known crested helmet worn by ancient Hawaian warriors. 



In some instances, the hollow crescent form, as representative 

 of the face, seems to have been arrived at by an enormous 

 increase in the size of the mouth ; in others, as in the case of the 

 wicker image just described, by a hollowing out of the face 

 altogether ; the mouth here, though large, not being widened so 

 as to encroach upon the whole area of the face. Since, in the 

 worship of the gods, food was placed in the mouths, the mouths 

 may have been gradually enlarged as the development of the 



* " A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean." PI. 67, fig. 4. Cook and King. 

 London, G. Nicol, 1785. 



