1 6 Old Hawaiian Cari'ings. 



holes made in the head of this last figure are very neatl}' cut; the hair and many of 

 the pegs have disappeared. A good bushy wig must have added chara6ler to the rather 

 insignificant bald head. Why so much labor should have been expended on a mere 

 ipu aina, a dish to contain the refuse of a feast, such as fish bones or banana peels, is 

 hard to explain, but in the next article of our list we find another ipu aina on which 

 quite as much careful labor has been bestowed. It is of course possible, if not 

 probable, that this figure-handled bowl may have had another if unknown ;;se. 



6. As might have been expe6led in such an assemblage of patrician possessions, 

 there was an inlaid ipu aina. Few of the chiefs entitled to wear feather robes that had 

 not at least one of these convenient trophies of their, or their ancestors', prowess in 

 battle, mementoes of the enemies killed. The one in this colle6lion is shown in Fig. ii, 

 and the dimensions are as follows: — Diameter 10-10.2 in.; height 5.6 in.; teeth 9 on 

 rim, 54 on side, less 4 missing, several half teeth, two decayed; 3 strips of bone; 2 sec- 

 tions of ivory harpoon point from Alaska. 



The teeth are all ground down, sometimes showing a sec^lion of a root, and while 

 the nerve cavities are large the enamel is remarkably thick. Some of the teeth were 

 decayed, and one has been filled impost morton /) with two narrow pieces of enamel. 

 Some of the teeth are plugged into holes too large. Three strips of bone and two sec- 

 tions of ivor)^ harpoon barbs from the Northwest Coast are added attradliuns ; the 

 harpoon would point to the very early days of the whaling voj^ages to Bering's Sea 

 when such articles were new to the Hawaiian sailors. It must be remembered that 

 these circular bowls were not turned, but cut with stone tools by the eye alone as 

 guide, and then polished with stones of varying texture. 



In the Museum are several of these ipu aina inlaid with bones and teeth, and 

 two of them are shown in Fig. 12. The upper one belonged to Queen Emma's ances- 

 tors, and is finished much in the same way as our cave specimen, although with more 

 symmetrical ornamentation. The lower bowl in this illustration was carved from a 

 piece of Oregon pine washed ashore after its long ocean journej', and, as the photo- 

 graph shows, it is thickly studded with fine molar teeth, a few of them worn down by 

 use in life. It was noted that in the inner portion of the cave where the colledlion we 

 are describing was found, there were many clean and polished skulls from which all 

 the teeth had been removed. 



7. Now we come to a very different class of objeAs. The game of Mu or Konane 

 was decidedly an aristocratic game much as chess even among the Egyptians, but I 

 cannot assert that its use was restriAed to the alii or chiefs as was the game of Papa 

 Iiolita or sledding down hill. It was played on a flat surface marked with points on 

 which were placed black and white stones to serve as "men", the game resembling our 

 draughts or rather the game called fox and geese. Often the flat surface of a natural 



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