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white lead and kerosene was tried, there being no prepared paint 

 available. Great care was given to the outlining of these figures, 

 and when thej^ were incomplete, either through erosion b}- the 

 sea or possibly for the reason that the work had been left un- 

 finished by the artist, no exercise of the imagination was permitted 

 to interfere with the presentation of anything but the parts which 



Fig. 3. PETROGLVPHS AT KAHALUU, LOOKING NORTH-EAST. 



could be clearly traced. The paint mixture was not successful, 

 and later a thin line of chalk along the middle of the grooves was 

 found amply sufficient. 



All the figures except that of Kamalalawalu were rather 

 smoothly and evenly graved in thin rounded channels of a general 

 width of .4 inch and a depth of .1 inch. The heads of the smaller 

 ones when not outlined were cup-marks of about .3 inch in depth; 

 and of the larger, flat and shallow depressions of the same depth 

 as the outlines of the figures. They were probably made by ham- 



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