Carving the Faces. 



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practical tool than its odd outline would suggest, and from the number extant it would 

 seem the most popular among the Hawaiian carvers. 



It remains to be said that the piipn was usuall}- made with the pump-drill, a 

 tool universally known through the Pacific ; rougher specimens of these shallow holes 

 were made with the very useful tooth. 



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ITG. 43. PARTI<Y CARVED AND UNUSUAI, FORMS OF IE KUKU. 



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When we come to the more elaborate patterns, koeaii^ piiil/\ etc., which, so far 

 as I know, are distinctly Hawaiian, we see that the pattern was carefullv marked 

 from the handle end in parallel lines at intervals to suit the figures to be carved : 

 Fig. 43, Nos. I and 2, will make this clearer. In No. i, the workman evidently 

 planned for a koeaii with one I/ahia, and he began, apparently at random, near the 

 middle of the skeleton plan, but before cutting far he concluded that a shorter face 

 would be better, and began again. Not being a first-class workman he suffered his 

 zigzags to become irregular, and so in places made the pattern pitili\ returning gen- 



