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HAWAIIAN STONE IMPLEMENTS. 



devotion and industn* of Chiefs, priests and the men of the distridts of the island. On 

 the other hand wliat the heathen conqnerer spared the "civilized" white man has wan- 

 tonly- destroyed, for a heiau near Honolulu that in iS8o was in a most interesting con- 

 dition has since been ground up in the rock-crusher to make roads, and no stone is left 

 to mark the place ! 



Cut stones for building purposes were rare, and in all cases they were shaped 

 from slabs of lava by patient hammering. One of the flat stones (No. 4899), formerly 

 surrounding the altar in a small fishermen's heiau on top of a steep volcanic cone over- 



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FIG. 97. TEETOTUM STONES. 



looking the sea at Kapoho, on the eastern coast of Hawaii, is in the Bishop Museum. 



Its dimensions are: length 48 in., width 26 in., and thickness 4.5 in. Some cut stones 



of a very different .sort have been found at Kailua, on the same island, buried in the 



sands of the beach, of which the original intent remains in doubt. They are called 



i\\& po/iakic kalae (cut stones) of Umi, and are said to have been brought on double 



canoes from some imknown quarrj^ along the coast probably now covered bj- some of 



the many lava flows of that region. One belonging to the Bishop Museum is 6 ft. long, 



2 ft. wide, and 13 in. thick. Could the}- have been used for landing-stones or wharves 



for the royal canoes on that sandy beach ? They were well cut, and of a size and 



w-eight difficult to handle b}- simple muscular strength. 



Before closing this brief chapter on Hawaiian wrought stones I may mention 



the stones found in several places, known as bell-stones from their great resonance. 



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