. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. 34 BAJVAIIAN STONE IMPLEMENTS. Makaweli on Kauai wliere tliere are maii)^ fragments botli of tlie lava used for mortars and the clinkstone of wliicli adzes were shaped. To this faftory I shall have occasion to revert when describing the adze making. What the exact process of manufac%ire was I do not know, nor can an^y of the old natives satisfy me. Certainly the method was not a perfect one for many failures are recorded nnintentionally among the refuse heaps of this facftor}-
. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. 34 BAJVAIIAN STONE IMPLEMENTS. Makaweli on Kauai wliere tliere are maii)^ fragments botli of tlie lava used for mortars and the clinkstone of wliicli adzes were shaped. To this faftory I shall have occasion to revert when describing the adze making. What the exact process of manufac%ire was I do not know, nor can an^y of the old natives satisfy me. Certainly the method was not a perfect one for many failures are recorded nnintentionally among the refuse heaps of this facftor}-. One that I brought from there is shown in Fig. 29 and it will be seen that the sides were split off niiiformh? all round, a condition that is rather puzzling, for the bottom of the cup seems about finished, and the accident must have occurred when the finishiug touches were being applied. It can hardly have happened. IAN STOXl-: MOKTARS. by a fall on to the stone ledge that crops out here and there within the limits of the workshop. Tliere is the ruin and my readers nmy adopt such explanation as seems good. That the stone worker was often deceived in the cpmlity of his selefted stcme is sliowii by the nniu}' failures after much, work has been expended, but when the uncertain nature of volcanic rock is considered and its common want of honiogeneit}- is known, it is not surprising. Many au experienced sculptcu' has been bitterly disappointed in his chosen block of Carrcra marble and after much labor has come upon a hopeless flaw. The shallow cups or dishes to be used with the mullers are show-n in Fig. 30. One (2979) is shown in reverse to exhibit the four legs. Most of the others are very shallow and were probabh^ used for the paints for the impression of the bambu stamps on kapa; lience they are abundant, or at least their fragments are, for each kapa maker must have had at least three of these enps wdien priming. There is little variation in [366]. Please note that these ima
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