STONE FIGURES. 



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A fabled lizard of great size was one of the "properties" of the Hawaiian folklore, and 

 to this day dread of this dragon-like monster is rife among the people. While draw- 

 ings of the iMoo or lizard exist, I do not 

 recall any carved figure of one. In bone 

 we have figures of shells, and even rude 

 skulls of enemies, but all these are small 



FIG. 92. STONE GOUGE. 



and belong to the chapter on Ornament. 

 Far more important are the anthropomor- 

 phic figures still extant that shoAv the sculp- 

 FiG. 91. STONE cHisEi, tor's powcrs uiost fully. Wood was of course 



the most pliant material for the plastic work, but most of the idols of this material 

 perished in the flames of the iconoclastic reformers of 1819. The few that survive in 

 the museums of the world have been photographed for the chapter on Hawaiian Wor- 



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