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and part of a stone knife. We also purchased with funds from the 

 Chas. R. Bishop Trust the very interesting collection of Mr. Alex- 

 ander M. McBryde, formerly of Kauai. This collection numbered 

 but 343 specimens, but among these were some of which this 

 Museum did not possess examples, e.g., kukui nut crusher, double- 

 handled kapa beater, two hula foot plates, two abdominal lomilomi 

 sticks, a double-pointed dagger, and a gourd scoop for catching the 

 fry of awa. Other interesting variants of types already in the 

 Museum were four stirrup poi pounders, a stone dish, stone lamp, 

 and phallic emblem. It added to the value of the collection that 

 it was made some years ago by a resident born on the Islands, who 

 had opportunities for gathering only good specimens. 



Our loan collection has increased ; several old residents who 

 have rare Hawaiian antiquities from which they are not ready to 

 part finally have put these in charge of the Museum for safe keep- 

 ing. This is also an advantage to us as an added opportunity for 

 study: the more complete our series of Hawaiian specimens can 

 be made the greater accuracy in the deductions from them, for it 

 is now generally to the specimens we must look for an explanation 

 of their manufacture and use. No exchanges of great importance 

 have been made in this department. 



The Curator, Mr. Stokes, has continued his researches on fish 

 weirs and fish ponds, and many interesting letters have been re- 

 ceived from other groups in the Pacific, but as there is a prospect 

 of obtaining still more information he has decided to withhold his 

 notes from present publication. Some time has been spent in ex- 

 amining the fish ponds of Kauai through the kindness of Messrs. 

 J. K. Farley and \V. H. Rice Jr.; and also in examining and pho- 

 tographing the fish ponds of Moanalua and Pearl Harbor. 



In his very interesting and valuable study of petroglyphs he 

 has made two visits to Keoneloa beach on Kauai where at the 

 southeast end of this beach, under the sand and in the wash of the 



waves, is a sandstone ledge about 250 feet long and 30 feet wide 



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