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HAWAIIAN STONE IMPLEMENTS. 



rest of the world. I have traced other Tahitian objeAs, which in the museums of 

 Europe and America were called Hawaiian, to the fact that the Reverend William Ellis 

 was a missionary in the Society islands until his health suffered, and on his way home 

 to recuperate, he was persuaded to tarry in the Hawaiian islands and help the earliest 

 band of missionaries sent b}^ the American Board of Foreign Missions. His knowledge 

 of the Tahitian dialect enabled him to converse with the closely related Hawaiian, 

 and thus his help was invaluable to the teachers on Hawaii who were struggling to 

 master the language of the people they had come to instruct. Mr. Ellis was more than 



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FIG. 32. TAHITIAN POI POUNDERS. 



an ordinarj^ teacher as his most interesting lour oj Haivaii in 182 1, and his various 

 works on Madagascar prove, and he not only studied manners and customs but colledled 

 specimens of the manufa6lures of the peoples with whom he sojourned, and the col- 

 ledlions brought through Hawaii from Tahiti and now in the British Museum mainly, 

 were sometimes confounded with those that Mr. Ellis colle6led in Hawaii. 



Evidently- the Tahitians held their pounders in a different way to the Hawaiian 

 bread-maker for the chara6leristic cross bar was the handle instead of the cylindrical 

 stem of the pounder. While the cross bar was longer or shorter, and of differing curves, 

 the specimens shown in Fig. 32 are good types of the southern form. Although the 

 Marquesan group is much nearer the Society than the Hawaiian islands the pounder 



found there more resembles that used ou the latter group, and was held in the same way. 



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