Chap, xix.] HUGE MOUTHS OF HAWAIIAN IMAGES. 439 



of the religion proceeded, in order to contain Lrger and larger 

 offerings, and the head in the wicker-work image may have 

 been hollowed out for a similar purpose. 



All voyagers who saw the Hawaiian images speak of their 

 huge mouths. Lisiansky, evidently describing the same images 

 as those figured by Ellis, says'that some of them bear huge 

 blocks of wood on their heads, and have mouths reachinir from 



