440 THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. 



ear to ear.* In the accompanying figure of the burial-place of 

 the Hawaiian kings, the god on the left hand shows an extra- 

 ordinary development of mouth. f 



The Hawaiians,in common with other Polynesians, recognised 

 a Moon Goddess, " Hina." The crescent-shaped faces figured 

 by Ellis, look almost as if they might possibly have represented 

 such a Moon Goddess ; but there seems to be no evidence in 

 favour of such a conjecture. 



With regard to the hook-shaped ornament, Cook writes : 

 " Both sexes adorn themselves with necklaces made of small 

 black cord, like our hat string, often above a hundred-fold, 

 exactly like those of Wateeoo ; only that, instead of the two 

 little balls, on the middle before, they fix a small bit of wood, 

 stone, or shell, about two inches long, with a broad hook, 

 turning forwards at its lower part, well polished. | And some- 

 times a small human image of bone, about three inches long, 

 neatly polished, is hung round the neck." 



Captain King writes : " I'oth sexes wear necklaces made of 

 strings of small variegated shells, and an ornament in the form 

 of the handle of a cup, about two inches long, and half an inch 

 broad, made of wood, stone, or ivory, finely polished, which is 

 hung about the neck, by fine threads of twisted hair, doubled 

 sometimes a hundred-fold. Instead of this ornament some of 

 them wear, on their breast, a small human figure, made of 

 bone, suspended in the same manner. § 



The form of the ornament was thus a matter of invariable 

 usage already in Cook's time. No similarly formed ornament 

 appears to occur in any other Polynesian Island. Nearly all 

 examples of the ornament in museums are of Sperm-Whale 

 ivory. I have seen one of wood, but none of stone. They all 

 seem closely alike in form ; but in the British Museum and 

 Christy Collections, there are necklaces made of a number of 

 small Hook-ornaments strung on the same strands side by 

 side. 



From the accounts cited it appears that human figures were 

 worn in the same manner as the Hook-ornament, as if the one 

 ornament were a substitute for the other. The Hawaiians 

 habitually carried their gods to battle with them, and in the 

 plates of " Cook's Voyages " several deities are represented as 



* "A Voyage Round the World in the years 1803, 4, 5, and 6," pp. 

 106-107. By Urey Lisiansky. London, 1814. 



f The figures extant of this Morai vary very much, no doubt partly 

 because taken at different times. The one in " Byron's Voyage," when 

 compared with Ellis's, seems however to be simply excessively badly and 

 carelessly drawn. 



% "Cook's Third Voyage," Vol. II., p. 232. 



§ Ibid., Vol. 111., pp. 134-135- 



