6 Director s Report for rijij. 



loaned good specimens of a kapa and a mat, which had been used 

 by certain chiefs, and a Fijian club, said to have been the favorite 

 weapon of Kaumualii, King of Kauai. Mr. E. A. Knudsen loaned 

 two wooden idols of unusual form, which were cast and returned. 

 From Mr. G. C. Munro were borrowed three uncommon specimens, 

 selected from his collection, and from Mrs. James Munro, part of a 

 pestle on the handle of which an animal face had been carved. 



"Field Work. — Although the Curator himself undertook no 

 expeditions during the 3'ear, the offer of Mr. Charles S. Dole of 

 TJhue, Kauai, to make additional measurements of the site of the 

 ancient structure crowning Mauna Kahili, was accepted. His 

 notes on the trip, measurements of the site and report of interviews 

 with residents have been received and filed for future reference, 

 and will without doubt prove of much value. 



"Notes on ethnographical specimens were prepared and pub- 

 lished in the Annual Report for 191 6. 



"Heiau and Subsidiary Work to Hawaiian Worship. — 

 My draughtsman, Y. En Tseu, left in the middle of the year to 

 continue his studies in the Louisiana University. Before he left 

 he completed the platting of the heiau sites from the Curator's 

 surve}^ notes, and calculated the positions of most of them. In ad- 

 dition he copied on the typewriter a large amount of material from 

 native manuscripts and newspapers concerning heiau. together 

 with translations b}- the Curator. His services were of great as- 

 sistance. 



"In connection with this work, the Curator has through the 

 kindness of Father Reginald Yzendoorn of the Catholic Mission, 

 and others, secured for the use of the Museum a number of manu- 

 script and published accounts of Hawaiian worship and the heiau 

 by writers in the native language. Combined with the Museum's 

 collections, there are now^ available the native accounts of Malo, 

 S. M. Kamakau, Kamakau of Kaawaloa, Haleole, Kepelino, Pogue, 

 anonymous native writers and others, and all the portions germane 

 to the subject have been translated or retranslated by the Curator, 

 except a few chapters of Malo. In this work assistance has been 

 received from Messrs. T. G. Thrum, W. H. Rice, J. vS. Emerson, 

 John Wise and others. The most important section, Malo's chap- 

 ter on heiau, has been submitted with full notes to Rev. Henry H. 



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