6 HAWAIIAN STONE IMPLEMENTS. 



rude tools and methods perhaps is hidden the most definite clue to the origin of the 

 Pacific immigrants, but this will not here be discussed for the space at our disposal is 

 otherwise bespoken. Of all that remains stone is the most durable material but with 

 all its hardness it bears the imprint of human hands as the hard bone 3-ields to the 

 softer muscle, and some one may take these stone records, add to them the other works 

 and customs of the ancient Hawaiians and perhaps solve the enigma of their origin. 



FIG. I. 



HAWAIIAN STONE H.AMMERS. 



At present too little is known of the archaic languages as well as customs of the en- 

 circling nations or peoples, at the time of the first irruption of the ancestors of the 

 Pacific islanders, to stud}- the problem with profit. 



How much memory of a previous civilization the Pacific immigrants brought 

 with them we may never discover : certainl}- the}^ could not have brought much in the 

 way of household goods, and from what we know of their earl}- voyages the bulk of 

 their cargo must have been food. Tradition on all the groups points definitely to the 

 arrival of the first settlers in canoes; the more recent immigration to New Zealand 

 even preserves the names of the canoes which were later transferred to the tribes 

 springing from the crews. On landing, a waterworn log, such as ma}- be found on 



most beaches, would perhaps be the first implement used in rolling the heavy canoe 



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