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Phallic Emblems. — The almost universal worsliip of the Phallus in early 

 stages of human development extended to the tribes inhabiting the Pacific, and was 

 prevalent among the Hawaiians. The worship is not to be considered here but the 

 stone emblems of it must be noticed for some of them are liable to be mistaken for 

 pestles. I have never found the curious nail which mv friend Dr. Kramer describes 



FIG. 25. HAWAIIAN PESTLES. 



from Samoa* but there are in the Bishop Aluseum many phallic oljjec^s of undoubted 

 antiquity. The stone lamps offer many illustrations and i\\& po/iakii clio are sometimes 

 found buried or otherwise hidden. In one case only have I seen the female element 

 represented and in that liugani it ajapeared as a well wrought ring through which 

 passed, but wholly detached, a conical stone similar to the larger of those shown in 

 Plate LXXV. Many of the obje6ls in this plate are well made and some are of great 

 size as if intended to occupy a temple, and not merely a private sanctuary. In the 

 Berlin Museum (Arning colle(5lion) is a male organ of such naturalistic treatment that 

 I infer it was made in later times and not intended as an object of worship, for in all 

 sacred phalli a very conventional treatment is shown. The images of the Hawaiian 



*Der Steiimagel von Samoa, von Dr. Auj^ustin Kramer. Globus Bd. I..X.\X.. Nr. i (190O. 



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