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HAWAIIAN STONE IMPLEMENTS. 



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care in working-; simply a split stone with a more or less sharp edge not enhanced by 

 grinding and unprovided with any handle as shown in Fig. 15. Such a rude imple- 

 ment could hardly be 

 classed with edge tools. 

 It was not so far advanced 

 as the rough flensing 

 knives of the Chatham 

 islands Moriori, where the 

 ; stone is shaped to some 



extent and the handle is 

 formed. Fig. 16 shows 

 these knives used bv the 

 Moriori for cutting the 

 blubber from whales or 

 other oil yielding mam- 

 mals. Still less could 

 they compare with the 

 more finished obsidian 

 knives from the Admir- 

 alty group shown in 

 Fig. 4. Probably not 

 much use was made of the 

 Hawaiian stone knives 

 for they are verv rare. 

 Knives of wood with in- 

 serts of shark teeth will 

 be described in the chap- 

 ter on Tools and Manu- 

 factures. They were less 

 common on this group 

 than on the Gilbert Isl- 

 ands. The more impor- 

 tant cutting tools, adzes 

 - - and axes I leave for the 



FIG. 14. HAWAIIAN soiuD-HooK. prescut to be considered 



later as perhaps the most finished product among Hawaiian stone implements. 



Clubs and Pestles. — Warfare and Peace. As with all primitive people these 

 states were not long sundered in time or space, their symbols may be considered together. 



Clubs and pestles in Hawaii were often of very similar form, and whether a given example 



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