6 Old Haivaiiaii Carvings. 



envelope was torn off. In passing it should be mentioned that the kapa was in fair 

 preservation, some of the specimens being of verj^ choice quality, such as was gener- 

 ally made only by women of high position. 



First and most important in the find are two wooden statuettes, both female, 

 perhaps mother and daughter, which I consider portraits," and if this conjeAure be 



t'lG. 



PORTRAIT .STATUETTE OF GIRI,. 



' I am not vminincUul of lliu 

 inlcresting stone fis^urt- already 

 described and rit^ured in the 

 essay on Hawaiian Stone Im- 

 plements (Mem., vol. i, 4, p. 

 95), bnt that, if not of foreij^n 

 workmansliip, was a portrait 

 of a foreigner. All that is 

 known of this curious bust is 

 given in the essay referred to, 

 but the illustrations may l)e 

 repeated here to show the con- 

 trast to genuine native work. 



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