76 HAWAIIAN STONE IMPLEMENTS. 



always seemed strange tliat the axe-makers did not bring the raw material down to 

 their homes and work it up in comfort instead of freezing in their kapa garments at 

 this great altitude. It may be that the mystery of the place and its very solitude kept 

 the trade in few hands and so enhanced the value of a tool that so many must have. 



Another quarry on the same island was in an almost equally strange place, a 

 lateral and deep crater of the volcano of Kilauea. The stone was obtained from the 

 lower walls of the very deep pit and a subsequent flow of lava in the crater has covered 

 all traces of the chips or working, but the name clings to the place {Kcamikakoi^ tlie 

 workshop of the adzes), and there are masses of clinkstone, often of large size, scattered 

 about the vicinage of Kilauea, apparently ejected by some explosive eruption like that 



FIG. 74. CUTTING EDGES OE HAWAIIAN ADZES AND .\.XES. 



of 17S9. All the adzes from the.se two quarries are dark-colored and ver\- compact. 

 On Maui, far up the slopes of Haleakala, was a quarry which I have never seen, nor do 

 I kuow the location. I know of no quarries on Oahu, although they maj' have existed, 

 for clinkstone is found in fragments near Aliapaakai and elsewhere. On Kauai, above 

 Waimea, the port where Cook first landed, are extensive quarries, and from these what 

 knowledge of the working of adzes I may have was obtained. Various stone enclosures 

 mostly in ruin and popularly considered liciait or temples are about the ridge where 

 the clinkstone was worked, and while some were workshops or habitations necessary 

 for shelter in that rainy region, there is every reason to believe that temples to the 

 tutelary gods of the guild of adze-makers were there as well, for the ancient Hawaiians 

 were a very devout people, acknowledging invisible superiors in all handicraft, and 

 doing no serious work without invoking the aid and protedlion of these deities. 



Of course the making of stone adzes ceased soon after the introdudlion of iron 

 and I have never seen them made, nor have I talked diredlly with an}- of the surviving 



makers, but I have seen them used and sharpened, and I have been astonished at the 



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