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Director's An nual /\'tfu>>{. 



Scattered along the low lava shore between Ninole and 

 Punaluu, and above the sea, were several small petroglyphs oi 

 the more common form. A.bout two miles east of Punaluu and 

 one hundred yards from the sea were several scattered groups 

 i Figs. 23 28) within a radius of J 1 it \ feet, and not more than one 



PIG. 23. 



PIG. 2 1 . 



PIG. ->S- 



Fig. 26. Fio. 27. 



PETROGLYPHS NEAR PUNALUU. 



FIG. 28. 



hundred and fifty feet from the trail. They had been graven to a 

 depth of .15 inch in the smooth portions of an old lava flow. The 

 grooves were not smooth, the surface being brittle. Here for the 

 first time the writer met with a definite animal form, in the figure 

 of a fish 18 inches long (Fig. 25). A circle, 8 inches in diameter 

 was also seen. It was this coast that Ellis referred to when de- 

 scribing the petroglyphs he saw, but the writer was not fortunate 

 enough to find anv of the semicircles or concentric rings. The 



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