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HAWAIIAN STONE IMPLEMENTS. 



Makaweli on Kauai where there are man}' fragments both of the lava nsed for mortars 

 and the clinkstone of which adzes were shaped. To this fa6lory I shall have occasion 

 to revert when describing the adze making. What the exact process of manufadlure 

 was I do not know, nor can an}^ of the old natives satisfy me. Certainly the method 

 was not a perfect one for many failures are recorded unintentionally among the refuse 

 heaps of this faAory. One that I brought from there is shown in Fig. 29 and it will 

 be seen that the sides were split off uniformly all round, a condition that is rather 

 puzzling, for the bottom of the cup seems about finished, and the accident must have 

 occurred when the finishing touches were being applied. It can hardly have happened 



FIG. 28. 



HAWAIIAN STONE MORTARS. 



by a fall on to the stone ledge that crops out here and there within the limits of the 



workshop. There is the ruin and my readers may adopt such explanation as seems good. 



That the stone worker was often deceived in the quality of his seledled stone is shown 



by the many failures after much work has been expended, but when the uncertain nature 



of volcanic rock is considered and its common want of homogeneity is known, it is not 



surprising. Many an experienced sculptor has been bitterly disappointed in his chosen 



block of Carrera marble and after much labor has come upon a hopeless flaw. 



The shallow cups or dishes to be used with the mullers are shown in Fig. 30. 



One (2979) is shown in reverse to exhibit the four legs. Most of the others are very 



shallow and were probably used for the paints for the impression of the bambu stamps 



on kapa ; hence the}^ are abundant, or at least their fragments are, for each kapa maker 



must have had at least three of these cups when printing. There is little variation in 



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