iS Dirtiior's Annual Report. 



A small adze of shell, length i.S inches, width i, and thick- 

 ness .2. with a rounded cutting edge following the contour of the 

 shell, and made from a species of Con/ts,'' is probahlx uni([ue, as I 

 cannot fnul that another has been reported in known collections. 

 I have no doubt that it is of Hawaiian origin. Mr. J. S. Kmerson, 

 well posted in Hawaiian folklore, quoted to me this passage in a 

 Hawaiian soug, which seems to explain the origin of the adze: 



"He alahee ka koi o iika, 

 He ole ka koi o kai." 



This Mr. h'merson translates for me as, "The alahee (tree) fur- 

 nishes the material for the adze inland, the ole (shell) for the adze 

 at the seashore." 



Another specimen, a lieav}- wooden fork with two broad, taper- 

 ing tines (length 12.9 inches, of tines 8, width at crotch 4, points 

 2.6 apart at centres) is believed by the owner to have been used 

 for gouging out the eyes of the human victims offered in sacrifice. 

 The tines are the same distance apart as the middle of the aver- 

 age native eyes. We have never found an>- reference to any in- 

 strument for this purpose, however, although the following has 

 been recorded concerning eye gouging. Malo (Emerson trans., 

 p. 229). describing part of the ceremou}- of consecrating a luakini, 

 said: "on this occasion Kahoalii (title of a man representing the 

 god ) ate an eye plucked from the man whose body had been laid as 

 an offering on the lele, together with the eyes of the pig. ' ' On the 

 same matter Fornander wrote ( Pohnesian Race, I, 131): "the left 

 eye of the victim was offered to the presiding chief, who made a 

 semblance of eating it, but did not." Since the receipt of the 

 Henriques fork I have learned of the existence of others of wood and 

 hope to learn more of the subject when I can inter\iew the owners. 



Another specimen, a sled or toboggan, made of breadfruit 

 wood, is illustrated in Fig. 3,4. It was built like the bow of a 

 native canoe, with the upward curAe of the prow ending in the 

 usual finish called the ihu . Behind the ihu is a block correspond- 



*The texture, color and curvature of the adze seem identical with those 

 of a specimen of cone which Dr. C Montague Cooke has identified for me as 

 C. qiieninus Hwass. [58] 



