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grooves. On the bottom the middle of one groove seems to have 

 been slightly deepened by a sharp implement in one or two spots, 

 but as all cuts run in the same direction as the grain of the stone, 

 they may only be the result of the i^eculiar chipping of the material. 

 Otherwise the pittings clearly show that the specimen was shaped 

 by pecking. The smaller end is flat and wide, is perforated and 

 has two notches on each edge for cord. The process of making 

 the hole differed somewhat from the usual drilling through from 

 both sides. In this specimen depressions were pecked on both 

 sides to about one-third of the depth, and the rest drilled. The 

 depression on one side occupies nearly the whole width of the end. 

 Drilling a hole through stone is an advance on the pecking method, 

 and it would seem that the specimen was completed by a different 

 worker than the one who began it. It is 6.6 inches high, 3.9 wide, 

 3.3 thick, and weighs 3 pounds 14 ounces. 



When found by Mr. Gregson in a cave in North Kohala, 

 Hawaii, in 1900, it was attached to an olona cord 30 inches long 

 and about a third of an inch thick. The cord was of four-ply twist, 

 not braid, which after being run twice through the hole was divided 

 into strands which pas.sed along the grooves at the edge, level 

 with the hole, and tightened in the channels separating the lobes. 

 The cord was so decayed that it fell to pieces when the specimen 

 was found, but Mr. Gregson said that the free end was finished off, 

 not cut. The short and heavy cord and the weight of the stone 

 suggest a form of canoe breaker, such as described by Dr. Brig- 

 ham in his essay on Hawaiian Stone Implements (Memoirs I, 341). 

 Mr. Gregson said it was an ikoi for tripping up and striking a man. 



Continuing Mr. Stokes' report with the 



LIST OF ETHNOI.OGICAI. ACCESSIONS. 



Bruce Cartwright, Jr., Honolulu. (B 382) 



Section of unusual form of stone pounder. Oahu. 

 John F. Colburn, Honolulu. (B 144) 



Fish-god. Oahu. 

 D. Iv. Conkling, Honolulu. (B 154) 



Model of Hawaiian sled. 

 Mrs. C. M. Cooke, Honolulu. (11,716-11,832) 



Seventeen sheets of kapa. Hawaii. 



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