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HAWAIIAN STONE IMPLEMENTS. 



Bl k.MCK PAUAHI BISHOP MUSEUM. 



FIG. 76. HAWAIIAN STONE ADZES. 



the verj' hard koa wood and never seemed to take too ranch wood as the foreign adze was 

 apt to do. That skill was an important element in the nse I was convinced, for with all 

 the teaching of the native I conld only make a dent where I tried to raise a shaving. 



But to return to the ancient Anakakoi. The marks of fires, where the blocks of 

 stone were heated to make sure there w^ere no air cells to cause flaws in the koi\ were 

 common, and the cores, flakes (spalls) and shapeless fragments cover the ground, with 

 here and there broken adzes, sometimes nearly finished before the unluck}' break oc- 

 curred. Plate LVIII. shows a series of "chips" from this workshop, obtained for me by 



Mr. Francis Gay, on whose estate the quarry is situated. These spalls and cores were 



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