52 Director's Annual Report. 
Scattered along the low lava shore between Ninole and 
Punaluu, and above the sea, were several small petroglyphs of 
the more common form. About two miles east of Punaluu and 
one hundred yards from the sea were several scattered groups 
(Figs. 23-28) within a radius of fifty feet, and not more than one 
FIG. 23. FIG. 24. HIG 25eu 

FIG. 26, FIG. 27. FIG. 28. 
PETROGLYPHS NEAR PUNALUU. 
hundred and fifty feet from the trail. They had been graven to a 
depth of .15 inch in the smooth portions of an old lava flow. The 
grooves were not smooth, the surface being brittle. Here for the 
first time the writer met with a definite animal form, in the figure 
of a fish 18 inches long (Fig. 25). A circle, 8 inches in diameter 
was also seen. It was this coast that Ellis referred to when de- 
scribing the petroglyphs he saw, but the writer was not fortunate 
enough to find any of the semicircles or concentric rings. The 
[276] 
