CLUBS AND PESTLES. 



25 



In the second and third specimens lime and magnesia take the place of alumina 

 and soda in tlie first, otherwise the bod}- material silica and the coloring element iron 

 oxide remain essentially the same. 



In New Zealand the principal forms of the worked stone are mcn\ //ri-//k/\ toki or 

 adze and ear ornaments; in New Guinea chiefl\' the adze, and in New Caledonia adze, 

 disk-club and beads of a spherical or flattened form. Dr. Meyer gives illustrations of 

 these in Plates \^. and \'I. of the work cited, and the Maori articles are well shown in 

 a work by Hamilton.* So slow was the abrasion in the rude grinding that it is said 

 to have taken more than a generation to finish a mere. The tools were blocks of sand- 



FIG. 19. HAWAIIAN STONE WEAPONS. 



stone rubbed slowly by hand, water dropping on the stone meanwhile. One form of 

 ear ornament resembling a capital J in the type called Gothic was of peculiarly difficult 

 workmanship. The odd-looking heitikis with one-sided heads were worked largely 

 with drills and sand; they had drilled holes for suspension from the neck. 



Of all these forms none seem closely related to the Hawaiian except certain clubs 

 and pounders. I am in doubt whether to class a certain Hawaiian shell ornament in 

 the Bi.shop Museum with the heitiki, but as it is an unique specimen I have decided to 

 relegate it to the chapter on Ornament. 



An antique form of Maori club is shown in Fig. 21 which both in material and 

 shape recalls the Hawaiian pestle, but the handle end is in both examples ornamented 

 with human heads, and one (No. 15 14) has two rude masks on the body as well, while 

 both have the butt more rounded than in the Hawaiian pestle. Of better workmanship 



♦Maori .\rt, by .\. HainiUon.' Xew Zealand Iiistitutt, Welliiigtoii, N. Z.: 4to., Pis. XI.V., XI.VI. 



[357] 



