508 A NATURALIST ON THE "CHALLENGER." 



the Hawaian kings, the god on the left hand shows an extra- 

 ordinary development of month.* 



The Hawaians, in common with other Polynesians, recognized 

 a Moon Goddess, " Hina." The crescent-shaped faces figured by 

 Ellis, look almost as if they might possibly have represented 

 such a Moon Goddess ; but there seems to be no evidence in 

 favour of such a conjecture. 



With regard to the hook-shaped ornament, Cook writes: 

 " Both sexes adorn themselves with necklaces made of small 

 black cord, like our hat string, often above a hundred-fold, 

 exactly like those of Wateeoo ; only, that, instead of the two 

 little balls, on the middle before, they fix a small bit of wood, 

 stone, or shell, about two inches long, with a broad hook, turning 

 forwards at its lower part, well polished."f " And sometimes a 

 small human image of bone, about three inches long, neatly 

 polished, is hung round the neck." 



Captain King writes : " Both sexes wear necklaces made of 

 strings of small variegated shells, and an ornament in the form 

 of the handle of a cup, about two inches long, and half an inch 

 broad, made of wood, stone, or ivory, finely polished, which is 

 hung about the neck, by fine threads of twisted hair, doubled 

 sometimes a hundred-fold. Instead of this ornament some of 

 them wear, on their breast, a small human figure, made of bone, 

 suspended in the same manner.^ 



The form of the ornament was thus a matter of invariable 

 usage already in Cook's time. No similarly formed ornament 

 appears to occur in any other Polynesian Island. Nearly all 

 examples of the ornament in museums are of Sperm- Whale ivory. 

 I have seen one wooden one ; but none of stone. They seem all 

 closely alike in form ; but in the British Museum and Christy 

 Collections, there are necklaces made of a number of small Hook- 

 ornaments strung on the same strands side by side. 



Prom the accounts cited it appears that human figures were 



* The figures extant of this Morai vary very much, no doubt partly 

 because taken at different times. The one in " Byron's Voyage," when 

 compared with Ellis's, seems however to be simply excessively badly and 

 carelessly drawn. 



t " Cook's Third Voyage," Vol. II, p. 232. 



X Ibid., Vol. Ill, pp. 134-135. 



