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religion proceeded, in order to contain larger and larger offerings, 

 and the head in the wicker-work image may have been hollowed 

 out for a similar purpose. 



All voyagers who saw the Hawaian images, speak of their 

 huge mouths. Lisiansky, evidently describing the same images 



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as those figured by Ellis, says that some of them bear huge 

 blocks of wood on their heads, and have mouths reaching from 

 ear to ear.* In the accompanying figure of the burial-place of 

 * " A Voyage Bound the World in the years 1803, 4, 5, and 6," pp. 

 106-107. By Urey Lisiansky. London, 1814. 



