44 



HAWAIIAN STONE IMPLEMENTS. 



Everything belonged to the King. The Hawaiian saj'ing "C_7 hma^ a lalo^ kai, o nka 

 a o ka hao piu\ ko kr '///" (All above, all below, the sea, the land, and iron cast 

 upon the shore, all belong to the King) was so true that if a chief heard the noise 

 of pounding poi, and was hungry, he could take the poi from the commoner to satisfy 

 his own hunger even if he left the poor fellow starving. This was sufficient!}' com- 

 mon in practice to induce the making of pounders of smaller size that would not 



FIC. . 40. 



UNFINISHED POI POUNDERS. 



betray the preparation of food bv the noise. Na poliakii km poi lualu. .Such are 

 several of the pounders shown in Figs. 43 and 44, and these lighter forms were the 

 ones carried bv the servants of a chief on a journev- 



On the island Kauai are found two peculiar forms: one in its various modifica- 

 tions is shown in Plate XLI\".: the other in Plates XLV. and XL\T. Both of 

 these forms are two-handed and the process is rather grinding than pounding. They 

 were preferred for grinding the barks and berries used in dyeing kapa. The stirrup 

 form ma^• be regarded the older, certainly the easier to make, and the ring form 

 {po/iaku kid piika ox poliakit piika) may have developed from this by wearing through 



the concavity. This ring form is found amon^ the old corn grinders of Mexico, and so 



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