STONE LAMPS. 



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idolatry was so sudden and complete that everything appertaining to the abandoned 

 cult was destroyed or hidden. The new converts brought forth their treasures as did 

 the hypnotised Florentines at the bidding of Savonarola 

 and consigned them to the flames if thereby they might 

 ransom themselves from Purgatory. Far more of an- 

 cient Tahitian implements are in foreign museums 

 than on the group. The British Museum was es- 

 pecially favored since it has the articles brought home 

 by that early missionary and careful observer Rev- 

 erend William Ellis. Fig. 65 shows one of the several 

 sorcery lamps in the British Museum and it will at 

 once be noticed that the design and workmanship far 

 surpasses anything we have on the Hawaiian group. 

 The perforated basement seems peculiar to this form 

 of lamp. The cup for oil is exceeding!}' large, sug- 

 gesting that it was used like the kapnalii kmii ana, to 

 burn other material than merely light-producing oil. 

 The arch over the bowl could not convenientl}- be used 

 as a handle, for the smoke of combustion made it Fif^-65- tahitiax sokckrv lamp. 

 constantly sooty, and its size was also in the waj'. Perhaps it was a rest for kukui nut 

 candles. Something seems to have been broken from the top of the arch, possilily a 

 consecrated figure. That the general size of the Hawaiian stone lamps ma}- be under- 

 stood, I give here the height and diameter with any explanation seemingl}- required : 



F'iGURE 59. 

 1211. A bul)l)le of surface lava, 3.5 in., 6.5 in. 



Figure 60. 

 1 197. F'lul of a broken poi pounder; the larger 5622. Broken poi pounder: hollowed at the 

 end hollowed out; 4.5 in. smaller end; 4.7 in., 5.2 in. 



Figure 61. 



Neatly rounded; 3 in., 4.5 in. 

 Has a deep cup; 3.2 in. 

 Olivine lava; 3 in., 4.4 in. 



4341. 4.7 in., 4.4 in. 4334. 



4336. A seaworn block; two natural cups, the 4331. 

 deeper (2.5 in.) used; 4 in. 4338- 



4332. Incrusted with burned oil ; 4.6 in. 



Figure 62. 

 7509. Large and heavy; lava full of felspathic 1210. Of the same stone and from the same 



crystals; Molokai ; 8.2 in., 10.5 in. 



locality as last; 5.7 in., g in. 



Figure 63. 



1202. Haiku, Maui; 6.7 in., 4.4 in. 4339- 



1191. Deepcup with cistern; 7.5 in., 3.5 in. (top). 1201. 

 1 193. Cylindrical, of coar.se lava ; 8 in., 6 in. 



Figure 64. 

 7959. Boat lamp for fishing; cup 3.7 in. deep; 8.7 in. 



MEMoras B. p. B. Mdseum, Vol. I., No. 4— 5- 



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Cistern in cup; 6 in., 4.5 in. 



Cup 2.5 in. deep; Pohowaa; 6.2 in., 5.2 in. 



6.5 in. 



