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Old Hazcaiian Carviiigs. 



the papamu. The general dimensions are: Board 1 3.2X10.2; 156 holes of minute 

 size, not in equidistant lines, about i in. apart ; rim raised, top 8 in. from base of feet. 

 Of one of the female (?) figures an arm has been attached by a neat mortise and 

 tenon joint, but is now lost. Eyes were probably inlaid with shell. A coconut braid 

 is provided to hang the papamu up with. 



The game of Konane or Mu got its more common name from the Mit or officer 

 whose business it was to capture the men needed for sacrifice or the ends of justice, 



Fig. 18. NET OF FEATHER CAPE. 



and the papavitt means simpl}- the board or flat surface on which the Mu captures his 

 men. The present example of such a board is the smallest I have seen. The places 

 are marked by tiny borings hardly visible, and are in regular rows and not quincun- 

 cial as is often the case. 



8. With all these carvings was placed a choice example of the tool with which 

 the carving was done (Fig. 15). Generally, however, while the cutter remains the 

 tooth of a shark, the handle is of wood, or, not uncommonly, the jaw bone of a pig. 

 In our specimen the handle is a human clavicle to which the shark tooth is firmly at- 

 tached by a single wooden peg. The bone is 5.5 in. long, is well shaped for a handle, 

 and has the remains of a waoke cord by which it could be hung up. Half the lower 



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