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HAWAIIAN STONE IMPLEMENTS. 



shape of adzes, clubs, amulets or oruanients are among the choicest of worked stone 

 objedls and are found in every museum. 



The middle island of the New Zealand group has been sometimes named for the 

 greenstone ox poumnuu found there, Init the name properly belongs only to the quar- 

 ries, — Tc wai poin/iimii. Alauy grades of greenstone are worked, biit the choice, deli- 

 cately colored and somewhat translucent varieties usually called jade are the ones of 

 present interest. These are ver}- hard and line-grained and lend themselves to careful 

 and patient work as few other stones. Dr. A. B. Meyer the distinguished Diredlor of the 



FIO. iS. HAWAIIAN CLUB HEADS. 



Dresden Museum has published* full information on the physical and chemical char- 

 acteristics of this stone which in its varieties has many names as jade, jadeite, melanite, 

 nephrite, greenstone, serpentine, chloro-mclanite, etc. From Dr. Meyer's fine work 

 I borrow three analyses (by Frenzel ) to show the constant proportion of silica in speci- 

 mens from different localities: — 



A'c'a' Zealand Ad'^c. Ncji' Caledonian Adze. 

 56-30 55.80 



5.62 5.67 



14-30 

 21-95 



2.90 

 Sp. gr., 3.16 101.62 Sp.gr., 2.98 101.07 ^P- »■'•■ 3-o6 99.91 



*Jadeit— und Nephril — objtcte. II. .Asien. Oceaiiien uiul .Africa. Konigliches etlinograpliisclies Museum zu Dresden. Leipzig, 1SS3. 



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