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HAWAIIAN STONE IMPIEMENTS. 



by the fishermen to prepare bait {pa/it), b^- the tatuer to hold his ink, by the kapa 

 printer to hold her dyes, and b^- man, woman and child for the innumerable purposes 

 for which such a container is convenient, especially in a civilization where the differ- 

 entiation of dishes has not attained the stage of modern housekeeping. 



In Fig. 56 I have placed some typical forms of these citps from the most finished 

 (No. 2974) to the roughest (No. 7760); the form with thick lips that could be used as 

 a lamp (No. 3568) and the fanciful form (No. 3569) that might serve as cup to No. 2974 



as saucer. It is seldom 

 that these cups when 

 dug up betray any 

 definite marks of their 

 former use, but some- 

 times the d.y& is still 

 permeating the porous 

 stone, and in others the 

 burned oil is clearly 

 in evidence. Although 

 most of these cups 

 have long since been 

 discarded for the more 

 convenient produ6ls of 

 FIG. 55. HAWAIIAN .STONE DISH. forcigu make, not in- 



frequentl}' an old fisherman attributes greater efficacy to the ancient cup, and I have 

 seen bait mixed carefully in a treasured relic of his predecessors. 



Referring to PI. XLVII. where many of the.se cups are shown, No. 1229 is 

 certainly a dye cup and No. 772S is undoubtedly- a lamp, while the others maj- have 

 been used for anything. The lefthand specimen in the middle row ( 7925 ) closely recalls 

 those stone cltib heads from New Britain, but in this case the boring has been effedled 

 on one side only ; the outer surface is that of a smooth oblate spheroid. Some are so 

 rude as to seem mere pebbles with a slight depression pecked on a flat surface ; in 

 others the boring of the cup was done bv a pestle-like pebble with sand and water. 



In Fig. 57 is presented a series of well-finished cups all of one general pattern. 

 The obverse has alwajs a flat, well-ground, edge; the reverse is sometimes hemi- 

 spherical and .sometimes bell-shaped. They, like their plebeian relatives .shown in PI. 

 XL\TI. might be used in man}- ways, but two of the many were so peculiar as to merit 

 a more detailed description. Thej- in this way have place both in Worship and Amuse- 

 ments and in the chapters devoted to those subjects will again appear, but here we must 

 say that in the dance {/ih/a) these stone cups were used to make disgusting noises b}^ 



pressing the wetted edges suddenly against some soft part of the body, — an effect es- 



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