Old Haivaiian Cai-z'iiig-s. 



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jaw of a pig was perhaps a ver}' early form of handle, and the convenientlj' bent end 

 has been retained in wood, as ma}- be seen in a fine example in the British Museum 



(Fig. 16). To one who has not tried this 

 tool or seen it used it might appear unsatis- 

 fadlor}', but I have seen it in the hands of 

 old natives as handy a tool as the knife of 

 a Yankee whittler. The best work made 

 with a shark tooth is perhaps the fine diaper 

 pattern on the ceremonial paddles, food 

 scoops, and adze handles of IMangaia, speci- 

 mens of which are in most large ethnologi- 

 cal museums, and which could not be better 

 done with our sharpest chisels. A mag- 

 nificent example of a IMangaia adze is No. 

 5939 in this IMuseum. 



9. Ipu wai, a gourd water bottle, the 

 onlj- one I have seen of this form, while not 

 FIG. 19. wooDE.N' FUNNEL. a carvlug is )'et a result of plastic art. The 



Hawaiians understood well the moulding of the growing gourd (of which they had two 

 species indigenous or of an- 

 cient introdudlion) b}' sus- 

 pension or compression, and 

 many beautiful specimens of 

 their skill are preserved in 

 the Bishop Museum, but in 

 the bottle before us the com- 

 pression has been applied 

 by a tight net work around 

 the bod}' of the gourd after 

 it had attained a consider- 

 able size. As will be seen 

 in the illustration (Fig. 17 ), 

 this has resulted in two rows 

 of five bulbous projedlions 

 each, which give a remark- 

 ably attradlive appearance to the bottle, which is 11 in. high and 9.8 in. wide. The 

 present cord upon it is of aha or coconut braid, stiff, brittle and doubtless very old. 



The gourd itself is thin and cracked. 



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Fig. 20. FOREIGN FAN. 



