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HAWAIIAN STONE IMPLEMENTS. 



found it a suitable implement to crush kernels of nuts or the stems of medicinal plants 

 Where choice intervened the kaliumi lapaaii or aboriginal "medicine-man" always 

 selecfted ivor}- or bone pestles for comminuting his drugs, — the material gave more 

 power to the drug. Several ivory pounders are in the Bishop Museum as well as a 



medicine cup made from 

 the vertebra of a small 

 whale. 



Returning to Fig. 23, 

 we have in No. 4660 an- 

 other primitive pestle 

 found in the ruins of an 

 ancient heiau or temple. 

 It is of hard cellular lava 

 rudely wrought, but con- 

 siderably worn by use. 

 Next to it is a ver}' choice 

 specimen, No. 4657, which 

 equals in the workman- 

 ship the best Maori speci- 

 mens; are we to consider 

 this the iiciva or hand 

 club of some chief? I have 

 alread}^ mentioned the 

 difficulty encountered in 

 attempting to distinguish 

 between the weapon and 

 the tool. The curious fig- 

 ure in the lower right 

 hand corner, No. 7947, 

 is what remains of a brok- 

 en pestle which by the 

 hand of a modern forger 

 has been converted into the semblance of an ancient god. Too many such occur, and 

 tlie Portuguese or Japanese stonecutters make many a dishonest dollar from the in- 

 experienced colledlor of Hawaiian curiosities, and the native of the soil is not free from 

 this cheat. So closely are genuine stone dishes or idols imitated that it is one of the 

 most difficult matters to pass judgment upon, even for the few experts, and it is safer 



for the tj-ro to reject any specimen even if be disinterred before his eyes. 



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FIG. 22. M.\ORI PAOI (NO. 1513) AND CLUB (NO. 131). 



