96 



HAWAIIAN STONE IMPLEMENTS. 



know nothing of what they were intended to represent. Several small objec^ts have 

 been put together in Fig. 96. No. 4488 is an implement of unknown use, perhaps a 



whetstone. The clinkstone 

 of which it is made is very 

 • compact and metallic in ap- 

 pearance. No. 5312 is a 

 small rudely made disk, of 

 which other specimens are 

 shown in Fig. 97. There is 

 a slight concavity on each 

 face, and a perforation in the 

 middle to unite these depres- 

 sions, and the natives usu- 

 ally call such stones /o/z^/Xv/ 

 ////■, or a stone for a top. In 

 Fig. 97, No. 4681 is doubt- 

 less such a stone, as it is 

 round and suitable for fast- 

 ening to a spindle, and No. 

 46S2 in the same figure 

 would also make a fair top; 

 but the two irregular speci- 

 mens, No. 5312 and No. 

 4683 (Fig. 97), could hardly 

 serve that purpose. They 

 have been used in modern 

 times, and so far as I know, 

 formerly as well, as part of 

 a snare to catch birds. A 

 loop of fine cord is passed 

 through the central hole 

 and covered with bait, while 

 the snarer leads the cord to 

 some cover near b}-. A pull 

 at the right time may catch the leg of the bird in the loop and the weight of the stone 

 prevents flight. No 7454 is a peculiar and well finished sinker for a squid or turtle 

 hook. The Bishop Museum has lately acquired another specimen still attached to the 



spindle, explaining the use, before unknown to me. No. 4064 is a neatly made ston^ 



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FIG. 95. NECKER ISLAND IMAGE. 



