Another Curved Adze. 



By William T. Brigham. 



On page 255 of the last volume of Occasional Papers I described 

 with figures a fine specimen of the rarely found curved adze. 

 Another has been brought to my notice which is in the collection 

 of Hon. G. N. Wilcox of L,ihue, Kauai. This has been kindly 

 loaned for casting and study, and the result of the casting with 

 Mr. Thompson's skill is seen in the illustration ; the replica is 

 side by side with the original. The material is a greenish, banded, 

 heavy stone of the general appearance of greenstone, or a lava 

 partly metamorphosed into serpentine. In places fracture is dark 

 gray, but not everywhere. It w r as found by Mr. Wilcox in 1874 

 at Waialua, Kauai, among the human bones common in the sand 

 hills near the beach, so that it has been exposed more or less to 

 the salt spray for the many years it has probably lain there by the 

 mortal remains of its former owner. 



This adze is much smaller than the one formerly described, 

 but was probably used for the same purpose — rounding the inner 

 bottom of a canoe, and when we consider how extensive the use 

 must have been in the prominent industry of canoe building, one 

 of the early visitors to Hawaii reporting 4000 canoes in and near 

 Kealakeakua Bay, it is remarkable that so few of the curved form 

 appear in collections, while stone gouges are not uncommon, and 

 these are but small unhandled adzes. The weight is 24.2 oz.; 

 the length, 7 in.; breadth of cutting end, 3 in.; length of cutting 

 edge, 3.2 in. Fig. 19. [Si] 57 



