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it is of a kind very common at Moanalua, forming a stratum four 

 or five feet thick in the cliff of that valley. It might be surmised 

 that the work was done with stone tools' from the pittings on the 

 unfinished portions. Even were a dull metal instrument employed, 

 it might be expected that the pittings would be deeper and that 

 there would be evidence of an occasional glancing blow. It might 

 be mentioned that the numerous imitations of stone idols seen in 

 these days show nothing of the care with which these figures have 

 been carved. The land where the stone was found was uninhabited 

 from the middle of last century until about 1891 (when Mr. Damon's 

 dairy was installed). There is one j^oint yet to be cleared up. 

 Mr. John Cullen, Mr. Damon's rancher, employed two men to pre- 

 pare the small piece of land for planting, and a number of stones 

 were dug up and used to fence the land, the stone in question, 

 for some reason unknown, being left in the field. These men 

 have since left the countr}-. After their departure, Mr. Cullen, a 

 staunch North Briton, seeing the stone in the field and wondering 

 why it had not been placed in the wall with the others, made 

 an examination and found the sculpturings. If ever the two 

 men are heard from, more ma>' be learned concerning the details 

 of the discovery. 



Before accepting the petroglyphs as of Hawaiian conception, 

 it would be well to consider the carving in profile, the squatting 

 position and the detail of the limbs, which place these figures in a 

 class apart from the Hawaiian petroghphs so far discovered. The 

 native wooden images were carved with a close attention to detail. 

 The stone idols mostly consist of a crudel}' carved face at the end 

 of a stone, but on all the Hawaiian idols observed, the nose was 

 distinct. In fig. a there was sufficient space for the artist to carve 

 a nose in place of the low ridge by which he indicated the central 

 line of the face. In this respect fig. a calls to mind the figures on 

 the Marquesan bone carvings and wooden stilt rests. The Rev. 

 \Vm. Ellis gives an illustration- of a wooden idol with a longhead 

 and similar features, which was secured by Rev. John Williams 

 in Rarotonga. Edge-Partington and Heape^ figure another one, 



'An illu.stration of shaping poi pounders by chipjMng with ])fbbles may 

 be seen in Mem. B. P. B. Mus., vol. i, p. 375, tig. 39. 



"Polynesian Researches, London, 1830. \'ol. ii, frontis]:)iccc, up])er right 

 hand corner. 



^Ethnogra])liical .\lbum, hrst series, ])latc 2^, tig. 6. 



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