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This use of liiiman bone for decoration lias before been referred to, and it need 

 onl}' be repeated here that while it was deemed honorable to have one's bones in a 

 kahili handle, in umeke, and sacred drums, it was regarded as a gross insult to the 

 dead enemj' whose solid parts were attached to spittoons or slop basins, or other 

 "vessels of dishonor". This Museum is fortunate in having a considerable number 

 of these fantastic mementos of perished enemies. See Plate XXXI. In some cases, 

 as No. 9290 in the illustration, the vessel was iised in sorcery and then styled Umeke poe 

 uJianc. The fragment shown in the plate was from the Deverill colledlion, and the 

 other half is supposed to be in Kohala, Hawaii. 



The following list includes also the plain slop basins : the}^ are, with the one 

 exception mentioned, of kou wood : 



Diameter. Height. 



630 This plain bowl is possibly an ipu holoi lima 12.5 5.5 



634 Keelikolani collection, narrow base 11.5 5.7 



635 Old and mended long ago 13.2 7.7 



636 From Queen Emma's collection 10 5 



637 Hawaiian Government; one tooth and an empt}- socket 9.2 4.2 



639 Queen Emma colleCliou 12.5 7 



6927 Pine from Northwest Coast ; weighs 7 lbs 12 6 



4144 Bones and teeth ; Queen Emma colledlion 9 4.5 



9069 Cave on Hawaii ; 63 teeth 10. i 5.6 



9290 Deverill colle(R:ion ; fragment of umeke poe uhane 11.5 7 



Ipu Ktlha: Spittoons. — Not an agreeable adjunct to the house furniture, 

 and yet, so far as it went, a sanitary measure that was not often found among uncivil- 

 ized people. Among the Hawaiians there was a deep-rooted belief (and three genera- 

 tions of Christian civilization have not much weakened the belief) that the kahunas 

 or priests had a power over the lives of men which was brought into action b}- 

 th.e^ pule anaana or praying to death, and that not b}- the mere length of the pra3'er. 

 This power was not confined to the priests in later daj-s, and others might possess this 

 sort of "evil ej-e", but in all cases to exercise it a portion of the intended victim must 

 be prayed over by the sorcerer. I do not care to go into this most interesting subject 

 here, for I shall treat it at length in another w-ork, but in short there were persons 

 well known to have this power in greater or less degree, and they were quite ready to 

 exercise it for paj'. The person desiring the death of an eneni}^ secured a lock of his 

 hair, the parings of his finger nails or his spittle : the last perhaps most easy to obtain 

 under ordinary circumstances without exciting suspicion : hence the existence of ipu 

 kuha. The higher the position of a man the more enemies he was likely to have, and 



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