Notes on Hawaiian Petroglyphs.—l. 
By JOHN F. G. STOKES. 
DuRING the past four years the writer has at different times 
collected data on Hawaiian petroglyphs and had planned, at some 
future date when the material gathered seemed complete enough, 
to prepare a paper on the subject or place the information gleaned 
in the hands of a more able person for the same purpose. ‘The 
manifold duties of a member of a small museum staff have so 
largely interfered with the carrying out of these plans that the 
time of their consummation is too indefinite; and rather than keep 
from students of Hawaiian ethnology the information that should be 
theirs, the knowledge so far gained is submitted herewith as No. 1 
of a series in which it is hoped to publish from time to time as 
discovered or communicated unrecorded data on the subject. 
The first observer to record petroglyphs on these islands was 
Mathison! who in 1822 saw a pictured stoneon Oahu. The follow- 
ing year Ellis? frequently saw along the southern coast of Hawaii 
‘fa number of straight lines, semicircles or concentric rings, with 
some rude imitations of the human figure cut or carved in the 
compact rocks of lava.’’ Fornander3 observed them on a hill at 
Kalae, Molokai, but appeared to see in them only an evidence of 
phallic worship. Kramer* saw a number on the same hill and 
illustrated several of the figures. At this same time (beginning 
of 1898) Farley5 recorded his observations on the numerous petro- 
glyphs occasionally uncovered by storms on the beach at Koloa, 
Kauai. ‘Two years later Thrum® published an account of a dis- 

‘Mathison, Gilbert Farquhar. Narrative of a Visit to Brazil, Chile, Peru 
and the Sandwich Islands. london, 1825. p. 403. 
Ellis, Rev. Wm. Narrative of a Tour through Hawaii. London, 1826. 
Pp: 431. 
3Fornander, Abraham. The Polynesian Race. London, 1875-82. Vol. i, 
p- 50. 
4Kramer, August. Der Phallusberg der Molokai (Der Globus, 1lxxiii 
Band, S.8). Braunschweig, 1898. 
5Farley, J. K. The Pictured Ledge of Kauai. Hawaiian Annual for 1898 
(Thos. G. Thrum, publisher). Honolulu, 1898. p. I19. 
Hawaiian Annual for 1900, p. 126. 
Oc. P. B. P. B. M., Vou. IV., No. 4—3. Lesa (33) 
