STONE FIGURES. 



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by a sugar plantation this image and its companion, which will presently be described, 

 were taken to Frankfort-on-the-Main by a German resident of Honolulu. This gentle- 

 man afterwards died, and hearing that the images were lying uncared for in their late 

 owner's courtj'ard, in 1896 while in Germany, I hoped to be able to restore them to their 

 native countr)-. I was three months too late, for on entering the great museum in Berlin 

 I found they had recently secured a permanent resting place there. Dr. Bastian, however, 

 kindly had casts made which are, by the courtesy of the German Government, now in the 

 Bishop Museum, and from these I have made the illustrations, PI. LXIV., and Fig. 94. 



The other image is not an idol (in the popular sense) but a portrait bust, and it 

 was first known to the white population of the islands when it stood in the valley of 

 Manoa, near Honolulu. It is claimed that it was there before Cook's arrival at Kauai 

 (1778). The ruff, wig and 

 cue suggest a Spanish 

 portrait of the time of the 

 earl}' Spanish discoverers. 

 Whether it was an at- 

 tempt on the part of a 

 native sculptor to repre- 

 sent the white strangers, 

 or whether some Span- 

 iard of Juan de Gaetano's 

 crew made it as a memo- 

 rial of their visit, I can- 

 not say. The workmanship is much the same as on other stone images undoubtedly 

 Hawaiian, and the owner in 1864, who was a gentleman of education and especially 

 versed in Hawaiian legendary' lore, always believed that it was of Hawaiian workman- 

 ship and very ancient. The front and profile are shown in Fig. 94. The bust is 32 

 inches high. It is the only portrait I have seen, for the usual idols are not "likenesses 

 of any form that is in Heaven above, or that is in the Earth beneath, or that is in the 

 water under the earth". 



I have mentioned the images found on Necker island of the Hawaiian group in 

 connexion with the stone bowl (Fig. 53) found with them. They were all broken in 

 pieces, but some of them have been repaired* and are shown in PI. LXII. It will be 

 seen that there are two distinct types, one made of cellular lava, and with a coarse 

 treatment of arms and legs ; the other of finer stone and more reasonable treatment. 

 The heads in all of them spring from the breast without necks ; thej- are large and 

 and have enormous ears. The profile. Fig. 95, is of image No. 7447, PI. LXII. We 



*The repairing consists solely in cementing together the ruptured parts. No additions have been made. Why, if the object was to 

 destroy these images, they were simply broken and left on the ground it is difficult to understand, for it would have been easy to have thrown 

 the fragments into the sea without moving from the spot where they were left. 



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FIG. 94. IMAGE FROM MANOA VALLEY. 



