Stone Sculpturings in Relief from the Hawatian Islands. 35 
accredited to the same island, but it is doubtful how much con- 
sideration should be given these resemblances. 
The carving in profile and position of the limbs of the petro- 
glyphs seem to find close analogy to a figure carved on stone and 
seen at Orongo, Easter Island, by Mr. W. J. Thompson.*+ This 
figure was perhaps another form of the god Meke-meke5 which 
Mr. Thompson says was the most common figure carved at that part 
of the island. However, an examination of the numerous tablets 
illustrated in the plates accompanying Mr. Thompson’s work will 
show a character, with variations, closely resembling the former 
figure, which, from the freqency of its occurrence, might be con- 
sidered as a representation of a human form portrayed in various 
acts. Among the Maori carvings, birds and lizards are found in 
profile, but the conventionalized human figure is always presented 
with full face, even when the body is seen in profile. 
The squatting position of the figures is not uncommon in Poly- 
nesia, as seen in these islands, remarked by the missionaries at 
Tahiti,° by Melville? at Nukuhiwa, and by Rev. Wm. Ellis® at 
Huaheine. 
The sculpturing in relief has already been observed on two 
Hawaiian stone lamps, one of which was recently purchased by 
this Museum with the Deverill collection (fig. 3), and the other, 
with a similar figure on one side only, was seen by the writer in 
1900 on board a small local steamer which was wrecked a few days 
later. However, these figures have no other resemblance to those 
at present under discussion. ‘The Bishop Museum is in possession 
of two stone fish gods with carvings of fish in relief. One, from 
the Deverill collection, represents a human head, with the face 
very well made and the neck shaped like a fish tail, the whole 
giving the suggestion of a round-bodied fish. At the back of the 
head a smaller fish two-thirds the length of the whole, has been 
carved in relief. The length of the idol is 8.5 inches. The second 
fish god is a thick stone roughly triangular in plan, with top and 
bottom flat and sides perpendicular. The top has been worked 

‘Te Pito te Henua, by Paymaster William J. Thompson, U. S. Nat. Mus. 
Report for 1889, p. 481, fig. 7. 
5Ibid, fig. 8. 
°Missionary Voyage of the Duff, London, 1799, p. 77. 
7Typee, New York, 1876, pp. 74 and 257. 
®Polynesian Researches, London, 1830, vol. ii, pp. 209 and 210. 
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