PES'ILES. 



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are the beaters shown in Fig. 22; both are of very dark greenstone and smoothly iin- 

 ished. The first, No. 15 13, is a paoi or pestle to crush fern root, a process for which 

 wooden pestles are more commonly used, and the other. No. 131, comes to the Bishop 

 Museum labelled "Hand 

 Club", but it certainly 

 coiild have been used as 

 a pestle, while its short- 

 ness (9.6 in. ) would be 

 inconvenient for a club. 



Pestles. — On the Ha- 

 waiian Group there was 

 no corn to be ground so 

 that we find neither the 

 roller and )ur/aic of the 

 Mexican nor the long 

 pestle of the Amerind; 

 nor did the Hawaiian 

 grind the fern root which 

 he usually baked, but he 

 had the nut of the Altit- 

 rifcs )iioliiccaua or kukui 

 and the kamani Calopliyl- 

 liiiii iiiop/iylhnii to crush 

 both for food and for the 

 oil. Here also, unlike the 

 custom of the southern 

 islands, the awa (Piper 

 )ii(tlirsticit))i) was ground, 

 not chewed. The grind- 

 ing of bait for fishes was 

 always done with wooden 

 pestles which will come 

 properly under Fisheries. 



As a general thing the Hawaiian pestle had no knob at the handle end, but some 

 of good workmanship, shown in Plates XLI. and XLH., have definite bosses. In some 

 cases the knob is replaced by depressions on opposite sides of the stem as may be seen 

 in No. 7999 of Fig. 23. The rudest form, which I believe to be very ancient, is shown 

 in No. 4483 of the same figure; it is simply a convenient pebble worn by use, and I have 



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FIG. 21. ANCIENT MAORI CLI'BS. 



