Deeper Umeke. 



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A more difficult feat than shaping a circular bowl was making a polyhedral bowl. 

 These are rare, and were evidently valued as they are found only in the possession of 

 chiefs or their descendants. Those shown in Fig. 141 belonged to the Kamehameha 

 famil}' and from them came diredlly to this Museum. The sides are closely equal and 

 beautifully finished, the flat surfaces fading into the curved ones in a most graceful 

 manner. 



FIG. 142. DEEP UWEKE. 



In size the Hawaiian umeke varied greatly as shown in Fig. 148 where the cen- 

 tral one has a circumference of 74 inches and a height of 20 inches. The largest one 

 in the Museum is 89.5 inches in circumference and 19.5 inches high, and natives claim 

 that there are larger ones, but I have not seen them. A modern turner would have 

 some trouble to handle a block of such size, and j-et the old Hawaiian cut down his 

 tree with his stone adze, shaped his block with the same implement of smaller size, 

 and finally with stone dug out the core. In depth also they varied greatl_y. Some were 

 hardly more than round platters, while others were deep in proportion to their diame- 

 ter as two to one. Fig. 142 shows two of the deeper ones, the first belonging to the 

 Museum, the other to the family of the late Chief Justice Judd. There is another 

 much deeper, formerly in the palace, and said to be the Ipn n/akaiii of Laomaomao the 

 Hawaiian ^olus, in which he kept his winds. Many of these deep umeke had thick 



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