18 Director's Annual Report. 
A small adze of shell, length 1.8 inches, width 1, and thick- 
ness .2, with a rounded cutting edge following the contour of the 
shell, and made from a species of Conus,* 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. Emerson, 
well posted in Hawaiian folklore, quoted to me this passage in a 
Hawaiian song, which seems to explain the origin of the adze: 
‘‘He alahee ka koi o uka, 
He olé ka koi o kai.”’ 
This Mr. Emerson translates for me as, ‘‘The alahee (tree) fur- 
nishes the material for the adze inland, the olé (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 victims offered in sacrifice. 
The tines are the same distance apart as the middle of the aver- 
age native eyes. We have never found any reference to any in- 
strument for this purpose, however, although the following has 
been recorded concerning eye gouging. Malo (Emerson trans., 
p. 229), describing part of the ceremony of consecrating a /uakinz, 
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 (Polynesian 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.’’ Since 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 prow ending in the 
usual finish called the zhw. Behind the ihu isa 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. quercinus Hwass. [58] 
