1 8 Director's Ayiniial Report. 



A small adze of shell, length i.S inches, witlth i, and thick- 

 ness .2, with a rounded cutting edge following the contour of the 

 shell, and made from a species of Conns * is probably unique, as I 

 cannot find that another has been reported in known collections. 

 I have no doubt that it is of Hawaiian origin. Mr. J. S. ICmerson, 

 well posted in Hawaiian folklore, (juoted to me this passage in a 

 Hawaiian song, which seems to explain the origin of the adze: 



"He alaliee ka koi o uka, 

 He ole ka koi o kai." 



This Mr. Emer.son translates for me as, "The alahee (tree) fur- 

 nishes the material for the adze inland, the ole (shell) for the adze 

 at the seashore." 



Another specimen, a heavy wooden fork with two broad, taper- 

 ing tines (length 12.9 inches, of tines 8, width at crotch 4, points 

 2.6 apart at centres) is believed by the owner to have been used 

 for gouging out the eyes of the human vicftims offered in sacrifice. 

 The tines are the same distance apart as the middle of the aver- 

 age native eves. We have never found any reference to any in- 

 strument for this purpose, however, although the following has 

 been recorded concerning eye gouging. Malo (Knierson trans., 

 p. 229), describing part of the ceremony of consecrating a hiakini, 

 said: "on this occasion Kahoalii (title of a man representing the 

 god) ate an eye plucked from the man whose body had been laid as 

 an offering on the lele, together with the eyes of the pig." On the 

 same matter Fornander wrote (Pohnesian Race, I, 131): "the left 

 eye of the victim was offered to the presiding chief, who made a 

 semblance of eating it, but did not." vSince the receipt of the 

 Henriques fork I have learned of the existence of others of wood and 

 hope to learn more of the subject when I can interview the owners. 



Another specimen, a sled or toboggan, made of breadfruit 

 wood, is illustrated in Fig. 3,4. It was built like the bow of a 

 native canoe, with the upward curve of the ])row ending in the 

 usual finish called the thu. Behind the iliu is a block correspond- 



*The texture, color and curvature of the adze seem identical with those 

 of a specimen of cone which Dr. C. Montague Cooke has identified for me as 

 C. q Herein lis Hwass. [58] 



