AXES AND ADZES. 



11 



FIG. 75. HAWAIIAN STONK ADZES. 



dexterity of the man and the efficiency of the tool. In watching the shaping of a canoe 

 I have seen the old canoe-maker use for the rough shaping and excavating an ordinary 

 foreign steel adze, but for the finishing touches he dropped the foreign tool and returned 

 to the adze of his ancestors, and the blunt looking stone cut off a delicate shaving from 



[409] 



