Old Hawaiian Carvings. 



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stoue was used, the "places" being merely dents pounded in the rock. Many of these 

 are to be seen on the ledges to the north of Kailua on Hawaii. At other times a mod- 

 erate sized flat stone was sele(5led, as No. 5313 in this Museum. The more elaborate 



t'lG. 17. GulKI) WATER BOTTI,E, COMPRESSED BY AHA HAWEI.K. 



were of wood on stands, plain or carved, while the places were marked by the insertion 

 of bones (generally chicken). The present example of a wooden papamu or konane 

 board (Fig. 13) is the only one I have seen with carved figures for supports. In the 

 British Museum is a bowl with similar figures (Fig. 14), and other examples are 

 known, but the curious part of this support is the hollow, cylindrical receptacle (for the 

 men?) from which spring the head and fore quarters, the hands becoming the feet of 



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