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The Ancient Hawaiian House. 



a similar cliurch in Kona on the opposite side of Hawaii whose stone walls, built pre- 

 cisely as were the walls of the ancient heiau, toppled down in an earthquake in 1867. 

 I am told" that there is a small village of stone-walled houses on Maui ; they are sur- 

 rounded with a thick growth of Lantana which shelters them. 



How early the Hawaiians introduced adobe walls, I do not know ; in the early 

 days of missionary work here, the Chiefs' School was built of large adobe blocks and 

 thatched : one of these blocks in good preservation is in the Museum. The well-worked 



KIG. 92. HALE KAUILA IN HONOLULU. 



mud of the native kalo patch might have early suggested the use of this material on the 

 dry lee side of the islands. While there are reports of the use of mud to protect the 

 thatch of the roof, this untidy method was apparently little xtsed, still less was mud used 

 to plaster the walls, as did the Micronesians on Kusaie, although there the material was 

 lime mud or plaster. Of all the bizarre materials that the old Hawaiians used for 

 walls, human bones were least appropriate or desirable. In the Hale hui (house of 

 bones) at Moanalua were built the trophies of a bloody battle, but as new light dawned 

 upon these people, the bones were quietly buried. Fornander gives a brief account of 



^' My .luthority is Dr. C. Montague Cooke of the Museum staff. 



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