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HAIVAI/AN STONE IMPLEMENTS. 



ledlioii. All are exceedingly well finished and might have been held in the hand when 

 in use; I do not know the method of handling them. There are two adzes in the 

 Bishop Museum of which the provenance is uncertain, and they are shown in Fig. 82. 



No. 3149 seems to belong to the Society 

 islands, and it will be noticed that the sides 

 are .sloping instead of as in the Hawaiian 



FIG. 81. SOLOMON ISLANDS ••VDZES. 



FIG. 80. SOLOMON ISLANDS .\DZES. 



vertical. The other one in the same figure 

 (No. 7878) I attribute with very little doubt 

 to New Zealand. Its main peculiarity is 

 the transverse ridge on the face, not an un- 

 common feature in Maori adzes, which seems 

 to have served to keep the handle in place. 

 We come now to the Maori adzes, which 

 have been considered most closel}- related to the Hawaiian. In Plate LIX. are shown 

 ten specimens of considerable variation in form, and I cannot believe that their total 

 dissimilarity to the Hawaiian forms is due solely to the different material used in the 

 two groups (greenstone* and phonolite). In three of the specimens (6952, 6944 and 

 1507) we see the angular blade alread}- noticed in Hawaiian specimens, — in all such 



*As will be seen in the table on page 86. many of these Maori adzes are made from a volcanic stone resembling phonolite but distinct 

 from the Hawaiian variety. New Zealand being a volcanic country with a great variety of lava, including obsidian, the worked stones offer 

 much greater diversity than on the Hawaiian group, where the volcanic ejecia are coniparativelv uniform. 



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