Old Hawaiian Carvings. 



required for ordinary dog teeth. The younger woman has a hole drilled in the back 

 of the mouth perhaps for attaching a tongue. The waist, especially in the younger 

 woman, is contrafted, and there is a curious ridge between the abdominal and pubic 



regions. This ridge is also shown in an 

 image in the Museum (No. 7656) which 

 maj' be a poor attempt at a portrait. In 

 the Museum figure the hands are better 

 wrought than in either of the female im- 

 ages here figured; the breasts are well 

 modeled and show the large Hawaiian 

 nipple. The calf of the leg is, however, 

 affe(5led with elephantiasis, and the balance 

 is destro3-ed. The head is remarkabl)^ 

 brach3-cephalic, the ears small and high, 

 nose prominent and curved, mouth open 

 and with thin lips, no signs of teeth or 

 tongue. The e3'es were of shell and the holes 

 for the attaching pegs are neither central 

 nor sj'mmetrical. The holes for attaching 

 the hair are of the rudest form, and while 

 the hair is gone the pegs generally remain. 

 Another anatomical feature seldom shown 

 is the diaphragmatic line separating chest 

 from abdomen. This image was for many 

 3'ears in the cabinet of the American Board 

 of Commissioners for Foreign Missions at 

 Boston. 



I can hardly say whj', but these two 

 female figures remind me strongly of the 

 old-fashioned figureheads of ships," which, 

 however, often had less _expression than 

 these, and it is quite possible that the na- 

 tive artist had lessons from some European or American sailor, for I should hardl}' 

 place these carvings earlier than the early part of the nineteenth century, or possibly 

 the last decade of the eighteenth. 



At the time of the destruAion of the idols, after the kapu was broken, many 



" I have compared them with photographs I once took at Nantucket of a number of these figureheads, once the 

 pride of shipowners, now discarded by a changing fashion, and while I cannot trace the least resemblance to indi- 

 vidual figures, the impression remains. 



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FIG. 6. BACK VIEW OF AIJIAKUA. 



