Notes on Hawaiian Petroglyphs. 



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(as the number of heiau in the vicinity would indicate), and 

 this group may well have been intended to record the not un- 

 common occurrences in Hawaiian history such as mentioned by 

 Fornander" in vol. ii, pp. 204 and 260. The length of the figures 

 is 30, 18 and 20 inches. 



To the south-west of the last group is another of three figures 

 with rounded limbs placed in a row (Fig. 8). It has been not in- 

 appropriately suggested that these were three dancers, the arms of 



fig. 7. 



the smallest figure being properly placed for some of the move- 

 ments of the hula. To the north and west are numerous other 

 figures which have probably been added after the completion of 

 the last group. However, there is nothing in the appearance of 

 the gravings to be ascertained as to the comparative age. One 

 figure should be noticed with the line of the trunk transversely 

 broken by a segment of a circle (Fig. 9). The outliued-headed 

 figure has its right foot connected with a small figure, 11. 5 inches 



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