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The Ancient Hawaiian House. 



Maori design. The main fignre holds -^ pain in which is an English penny. The door 

 has been fastened by an old English lock, of which the keyhole is seen on the right. 

 While the human figures in Maori carving seem 

 grotesque in the extreme, the mythical animals fre- 



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FIG. -KX. DOORWAY OF PATAKA. ('"','"' Bishop) pjQ ,. CENTRAL SLAB OF PATAKA 



quently found in sculptured decoration out-herod Herod. The Maori was well able to 

 treat his subject ad na/nrain, and if he distorted the actual models before him, he had his 

 reason, and it was not lack of power; but when his subject was a tanizvha he perhaps 



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