34 Director's Annual Report. 
it is of a kind very common at Moanalua, forming a stratum four 
or five feet thick in the cliff of that valley. It might be surmised 
that the work was done with stone tools' from the pittings on the 
unfinished portions. Even were a dull metal instrument employed, 
it might be expected that the pittings would be deeper and that 
there would be evidence of an occasional glancing blow. It might 
be mentioned that the numerous imitations of stone idols seen in 
these days show nothing of the care with which these figures have 
been carved. ‘The land where the stone was found was uninhabited 
from the middle of last century until about 1891 (when Mr. Damon’s 
dairy was installed). There is one point yet to be cleared up. 
Mr. John Cullen, Mr. Damon’s rancher, employed two men to pre- 
pare the small piece of land for planting, and a number of stones 
were dug up and used to fence the land, the stone in question, 
for some reason unknown, being left in the field. These men 
have since left the country. After their departure, Mr. Cullen, a 
staunch North Briton, seeing the stone in the field and wondering 
why it had not been placed in the wall with the others, made 
an examination and found the sculpturings. If ever the two 
men are heard from, more may be learned concerning the details 
of the discovery. 
Before accepting the petroglyphs as of Hawaiian conception, 
it would be well to consider the carving in profile, the squatting 
position and the detail of the limbs, which place these figures in a 
class apart from the Hawaiian petroglyphs so far discovered. ‘The 
native wooden images were carved with a close attention to detail. 
The stone idols mostly consist of a crudely carved face at the end 
of a stone, but on all the Hawaiian idols observed, the nose was 
distinct. In fig. a there was sufficient space for the artist to carve 
a nose in place of the low ridge by which he indicated the central 
line of the face. In this respect fig. a calls to mind the figures on 
the Marquesan bone carvings and wooden stilt rests. The Rev. 
Win. Ellis gives an illustration’ of a wooden idol with a long head 
and similar features, which was secured by Rev. John Williams 
in Rarotonga. Edge-Partington and Heape’ figure another one, 

‘An illustration of shaping poi pounders by chipping with pebbles may 
be seen in Mem. B. P. B. Mus.,/vol. 1, p. 375, fig. 39. 
*Polynesian Researches, London, 1830. Vol. ii, frontispiece, upper right 
hand corner. 
3Ethnographical Album, first series, plate 23, fig. 6. 
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