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Ka Hana Kapa. 



however, m3'Sterious to the unlearned, involuntarily betray secrets of domestic life as 

 well as the mysteries of their religion. In this remote island we have no access to Lord 

 Kingsborough's richly filled folios which probabl}' show the stone faces of the paper 

 (kapa) beaters in use or complete for use, but the stones themselves tell us enough to 

 show that the}^ had handles of some sort for their more effectual use/^ These beaters 

 are oblong, rectangular stones of the following dimensions and weights. To those 

 given to the Museum I have added another still in the possession of the same colleAor. 



Fig. 122. MEXICAN STONE BE.\TERS (OBVERSE). 



FIG. 123. MEXICAN STONE BEATERS (REVERSE). 



A. 3 in. long; i7s in. wide; i ' s in. thick. Weight 10.5 oz. Pattern on one 

 side lioopai with 22 flat ridges, on the reverse mole. Three sides of the edge are cut 

 with a smooth semicircular groove, rounded at the two corners, while the fourth side 

 is flat. Material a reddish stone with quartz-like matrix interspersed with darker 

 granules ; the material of the three specimens is the same. 



B. 238 in. long; iS^in. wide; I'i in. thick. Weight 7.5 oz. Pattern on both 

 faces pepchi with 4 flat ridges. Edges grooved for a third of their width precisel}- as 

 in the former specimen but not so smooth. A ruder and perhaps older specimen. 



C. 3/4^ in. long; 2 in. wide; 1^4 in. thick. Weight 10.2 oz. Pattern on one 

 s,\A& pepchi with 12 rounded ridges on one side and 19 flat ones lioopai ou the other. 



These stones seem to have been attached to a convenient, probably flat, handle 

 with rounded edges b}- means of a cord or thong. 



"I have examined with care the onh- two codices in the museum librarj-, the Xuttall, printed in 1902, the 

 Codex Mogliabecchiano XIII. 3, printed in Rome 1904 for the Due de Loubat and by him given to the Museum. 

 I have, however, not been able to find a figure of what must have been a common implement. 



