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The Ancient Hawaiian House. 



is worn to a slender rod bj^ long use (see tlie upper right hand corner specimen in Plate 

 XXX); in No. 620 of the figure there are two of the ridges, the only specimen we 

 have with this peculiaritj'. In the colleAion of the Hon. S. M. Damon, at Moanalna, 

 is a finger bowl with the handle hollowed to hold sand or grit as a substitute for soap, 

 an unique form so far as known (Fig. 171 ). Certainly the old Hawaiians of the upper 

 class had attained some civilization before the coming of the missionaries ! 



FIG. 172. 



IPU AINA OR SLOP BASINS. 



Na Ipu Aina^Slop Basins. — An article used almost exclusively by the 

 chiefs at their feasts to receive the refuse of their food, as fish-bones, banana skins, etc. 

 They were thick and heav)^ (No. 638 weighs seven pounds) and not infrequently inlaid 

 with the bones or the teeth of an enemj^, — sometimes of many enemies, as in No. 6927 

 (Plate XXXI), where no less than 289 molar teeth are inserted in a bowl cut from a log 

 of hard pine drifted to these islands from the Columbia River region. In No. 9069 

 many teeth are inserted and ground to show a cross section ; in some of these teeth the 

 exposed nerve cavity was so large as to require a filling, for which a splinter of another 

 tooth was used. In No. 4144 bones were used as well as teeth and very neatly inserted. 



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