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HAWAIIAN STONE IMPLEMENTS. 



kind in the Bishop Mnsenm, but the only one I have seen. It is a great stone wedge 

 7.5 inches long and 2.5 inches on the blade. It is of hard and durable clinkstone weigh- 

 ing 2 lbs. 13 oz. The angle of the wedge is about 65°. When used as an axe it was 



doubtless bound to a han- 

 dle, although the very 

 blunt end would seem to 

 render the attachment 

 difficult. Except for riv- 

 ing logs I do not know 

 what work such an axe 

 could do that might not 

 better be done with the 

 more common adzes. An- 

 other more common form 

 of axe is shown on Plate 

 LVIL, No. 3 14 1. 



That the Hawaiian adze 

 is peculiar and not very 

 closely allied to those of 

 New Zealand, as claimed 

 by Moseley in theA'o^-age 

 of the Challenger, nor in- 

 deed to any other of the 

 Pacific forms will, I think 

 be plain enough from the 

 many illustrations herein 

 given (Plates LIII. to 

 LVIL, and Figs. 74-79). 

 As it has several times 

 been asserted that Ha- 

 waiian and Maori adzes 

 were more closely allied 

 HAWAIIAN FISHING STONES. thau thosc of any of the 



other Pacific groups, I have given illustrations of Moriori adzes (Figs. 81 and 82) from 

 the Chatham islands as well as a series of the later Maori forms (Plate LIX.) probably 

 derived from their predecessors. I have also shown the chisel-like greenstone adzes from 

 the Solomon islands (Fig. 78) which differ most from the Hawaiian. The Hawaiian 

 peculiarity consists in the parallel sides and angular tang, but it is not to one definite 



shape that all Hawaiian adzes conform. For instance, the plates show that parallelism 



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