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drawings representing natural objects. The lowest savages 

 such as the Australians, excel far more in their drawings of 

 animals and men than in pattern ornaments on their weapons, 

 and the earliest attempts at art known are drawings of animals, 

 such as the well-known one of the Mammoth cut on its own 

 ivory by contemporaneous man. 



At Hilo I obtained from some natives a short stone clul^,* 

 which appears to have been hitherto unknown as a Sandwich 

 Island weapon, and is interesting as approaching in some par- 

 ticulars the New Zealand " Mere." It is made of basalt, with 

 carefully ground surfaces, and is about lo inches in length. 



NEW ZEALAND WOOD CARVING OF 

 HUMAN HEAD. 



To show the huge size of the mouth, 

 from which the tongfue is seen hang- 

 iiig down. (From the stretcher of a 

 canoe in the Ashmolean Museum, 

 Oxford.) 



NEW ZEALAND WOOD CARVING 

 OF HUMAN HEAD. 



To show the large size of the 

 mouth and concavity of the face. 

 (From a specimen in the British 

 Museum.; 



It is cylindrical in form with three sharp edges at the striking 

 end, and was slung to the wrist by a string passed through a 

 hole at one end. It was called " pohaku newa," "stone club." 

 My attention has been drawn by my friend Mr. A. W. 

 Franks, F.R.S., to the resemblance between the Hawaiian 

 images of gods and the New Zealand human images. The 

 accompanying figures are given for comparison. It will be 

 seen that there is in them a similar extraordinary increase in 



* H. N. Moseley, "Note on Stone Club." Journal of Anthropological 

 Inst. 1S77, p. 52, PI. XVIII. 



