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as No. 4798 in Plate XL., or better .still No. 4657 in Fig. 23, was weapon or tool must 

 be decided by the iinisli and the abrasion of the grinding end. I believe this latter 

 specimen to be a club i^Nciva) both from the superior finish, unusual on a pestle, 

 and from the absence of any sign of abrasion at the butt. It was a heavy effe(?tive 

 weapon made of compact lava. 



Another form of newa was free from any ambiguity. Formed of stone like the 

 last, it had four wings or ridges at the head, and although this example (Plate XL., 

 No. 4785) was not so carefully wrought as some, it was a favorite form and similar 

 clubs of heavy kauila wood are in the Bishop Museum. What I believe to have been 



FIG. 15. HAWAIIAN STOXK KNIFE. 



a later adaptation of this pattern has been described* by Charles H. Read, Esq., 

 F. A. S., from the Vancouver collecflion in the British Museum. A stone head with 

 four ridges is bound to a baton of kauila wood by cords of olona. In the Bishop 

 Museum are two heads of stone (Fig. 18) of which No. 47S9 closely resembles 

 the one in the Vancouver collection; it weighs 16 oz. The other. No. 4790, is barrel- 

 shaped, 4.4 in. long, and weighs 19 oz. Four deep grooves receive the attaching cords 

 and the base is slightly hollowed out to receive the end of the wooden handle. There 

 is another head of much better finish in private hands in Honolulu, in whicli the at- 

 tachment to the wood was facilitated b}- four knobs at the base. I have examined this 

 through the kindness of a third party but have been unable to obtain either cast or 

 photograph of the specimen which is said to have been found in the district of Kohala 

 on Hawaii. It was brought to me for a name, and there may be other similar specimens 



* Journal of the Anthropological Institute. XXI., p. 10=;, pi. .\. 



