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Tools Used in Buildins'. 



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the adze marks in the hewn timber (Plate XXVI, and Figs. 77-82), and these were 

 never covered with sennit as in Tonga and Samoa. 



The stone adzes were the principal tools used in all the honse framing, although 

 fire was used at times in felling trees. When foreign tools came to the Islands they 

 were not at once popular : the 

 adze, the}' said, was too heav}* 

 (for men who swung a ten- 

 pound stone adze-head!); and 

 when the superior durabilit}- of 

 the metal was acknowledged, 

 the native carpenters still kept 

 the ail or handle of the stone 

 tool and used plane irons at- 

 tached with coconut cord in 

 the ancient way. I have seen 

 old canoe makers use a foreign 

 adze to roughlj' excavate the 

 canoe log and then return to 

 the old stone koi to put the 

 proper finish on their work. 



In cutting the deep 

 notch in the rafters a stone 

 file was often used, and the 

 ever useful pump-drill ( Fig. 

 68), a tool common thi-ough- 

 out the Pacific, served to bore 

 the holes for the pins in the 

 door. To dig the post holes 

 the universal 00 or digger, a 

 tough stick of convenient length sharpened at one end like a duck's bill, was used. 

 Not a hammer, not a nail. As in the building of Solomon's Temple, "there was neither 

 hammer nor axe nor anj' tool of iron heard in the house while it was in building." We 

 may add that the general confusion of tongues and shouting among the many workers 

 would have smothered the rat-tat of a dozen hammers. 



In place of nails or screws the Hawaiians used cords of various sizes (Plate 

 XXIX) for fastening together the different parts of a house. The largest aha of 

 braided coconut fibre served as cable for the stone anchor of a canoe : a size nearly as 



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FIG. 68. HAWAIIAN PUMP-DRILL. 



