AXES AND ADZES. 



73 



For boring small holes in stone, shell, or bone, the old Hawaiian nsed fragments 

 of lava made fast to the spindle of the nniversally known "pump drill", and in 

 most cases the hole was not bored diredlly through but countersunk, as it were, 

 from both sides until the conical holes met in the middle of the object to be perfor- 

 ated. In this way were bored the holes in dog teeth for attaching them to the net 

 for anklets to be worn in the hula. One pair of these hula anklets in the Bishop 

 Museum has nineteen hundred holes, each drilled from both sides! 



Fishing Stones. — A peculiar method of fishing in vogue among the old 

 Hawaiians consisted in suspending in the water club-shaped pieces of wood smeared 

 with some bait ( pahi ) supposed to be attractive to the 

 fish, and then hooking or scooping the assembled 

 pre}'. Many of these hum )ucliiiiicl() are in the Bishop 

 Museum, and many of the formula; for bait used to 

 render the log attractive have been published in an 

 early catalogue of this Museum.* vStone was some- 

 times substituted for wood, although rarely, and the 

 only two that I have seen are shown in Fig. 72 (Nos. 

 7453 and 7452 ). They are well made, doubtless for some 

 person of importance, and have been carefully kept. 

 The longer one measures 9.5 inches and is of very 

 graceful outline. In shape they resemble magnified 

 "amulets" or "plummets" so common on the American 

 continent. Most of the fish caught by means of these 

 t)oliakji mc'/ovic/o were small shore fish and the process 

 will be described more fully in the chapter on Fisheries. t . 



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Papamu for Konane.— The game of kona)ic, pro. 71. METHOD OF BORING 



SHELL KINGS. 



a favorite one among the upper classes of old Hawaii, 



was usually played on a wooden board ( papaiii/i) marked with spots arranged either 

 in files or quincuncially and of indefinite number. In some cases stone took the place 

 of wood, as in a fine specimen in the Bishop Museum (No. 5313). Here a large flat 

 stone 16X24 inches is dotted with depressions (about 120) in files, but I have seen a 

 much larger series of these pits upon the flat lava slabs /;/ si//i near Kailna, Hawaii. 

 The "men" used in playing were beach-worn pebbles of black lava and white coral. 



Axes and Ad^eS. — If this important class of stone implements has been left 

 until now it was not for insufficient appreciation, nor poverty of material, except in the 

 first mentioned tool, where No. 4603 (Fig. 73) is not onl}' the single specimen of its 



*A I'reliniinarv' Catalogue of the IJernice I'auahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Kthnology and Natural History, Pt. II., p. 95. Honolulu, i)Sy2. 

 tThe Indians of Vancouver vised sinkstones of the size of a goose egg and shaped like those described in the text, to twirl the bait. Mem. 

 Anthrop. Soc. London. III., p. 261. 



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