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The Ancient Hawaiian House. 



can be discharged: the other figure has a human head, certainly of the blockhead 

 type. The Maori dish is rudely carved as ma}' be seen in the illustration, and is not 

 very old, while the Hawaiian example is of great antiquity. Plate XXXV contains 

 most of the carved Hawaiian dishes in the European museums, and there will be seen 

 another bowl now in the British Museum where the same one direction tnof if is used, 

 although the figures are both standing. In a similar dish in the Leiden Museum 

 both figures are attached to the base of the bowl and face outwards. 



The common people had none of 

 these carved or fantastic dishes, but thc}' 

 certainh' had a more comfortable substi- 

 tute for these dishes of the alii. Very man3' 

 have survived from remote times, buried in 

 the caves where they perhaps held food for 

 the manes of their departed owners. I do 

 not mean to saj? that the upper classes did 

 not have the very convenient dishes I am 

 about to describe, for they certainly had all 

 worth having that the makaainana pos- 

 sessed, but many of the specimens shown 

 in Fig. 166 are of such rude art that they 

 mark very early time or verj' humble 

 owners. Some are not very different from 

 the rudely hewn troughs used in both New 

 and old England for feeding sheep, or a 

 better illustration still the log troughs so 

 common in maple sugar camps. Some are 

 square at both ends, others rounded at both 

 ends, and others still, square at one end 

 and rounded at the other. Almost all have 



some handle or hole fitted with string by which they may be hung up out of the way. 

 They were used for fish or baked meat, and the central one in Fig. 165 is almost long 

 enough for the great eels of the Hawaiian waters: 44.5 inches long and 14 wide. 



FIG. 165. LONG PLATTERS FROM THE 

 DEVERILL COLLECTION. 



Before taking up the next articles of house furniture, the finger-bowls, slop 



basins and spittoons, we will insert a tabular view of the umeke, and allied utensils 



showing their material and size, and to some extent, their shape, for the Bishop 



Museum colledlion is so large, authentic, and varied that it fairly represents the best 



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