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HAWAIIAN STONE IMPLEMENTS. 



diameter, and weighing eighty-seven pounds was used as a test of strength on Kauai. 

 The largest in the illustration ( No. 35S8) was used as a bowl, is of good surface, weighs 

 twenty-two pounds, and is seven and a half inches in diameter. 



Similar but flatter grinding stones were used on other groups, as the Solomon, 

 Gilbert and Caroline islands, to grind the shell money of those places. In that opera- 

 tion the fragments of .sea shells or of coconut .shells were roughly rounded by the 

 hammer, drilled and strung on the midrib of palm leaflets, often a score or more at a 

 time, and rolled until polished. Specimens in the Bishop Museum from all the.se 



FIG. 10. STONE BALLS USED IN GAMES. 



islands show great skill and a beautiful finish. The flat stones on which the Australian 

 ground edible seeds and shaped adzes in turn must be classed with these Hawaiian 

 grindstones. In no case have I seen any ornamentation or definite shaping such as 

 the Mexican both in olden time and now gives to the nictate ; all the grindstones of 

 the Pacific islanders were stri6lly utilitarian. 



Polishing Stones. — With the exception of adze-sharpening and ball-rolling, 

 the large flat grindstones were not much in demand, the smaller stones, even round 

 pebbles taking their place as more portable and more convenient of application to any 

 surface however irregular. Here again the diversity of uses for the same simple tool 

 is well seen, the pebblestone hammer being very generall}-, especially by the Maori, 



used for a polisher. 



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