. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. HAWAffAN STONE VH'.. 90, >1A( A1>ZJC IIANDIJ-: t:i|)ers Lo each end. Doubtless Ijiiricd in a moist place fo]' !iia,ii\- years its present siirfare iiiueli resembles nist^- iron. Aiiollier i^'oiig'e in the colleftion (No. 4555) is in. long, ill. wide at tattling edge, and weighs onl}* o'/. It is ground smooth and well iDunded, and with tlie gouge shown in, I'^ig. 92 seen,is to have been used in ear\ang the la,rge idols. At least the cnrvcd edge e
. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. HAWAffAN STONE VH'.. 90, >1A( A1>ZJC IIANDIJ-: t:i|)ers Lo each end. Doubtless Ijiiricd in a moist place fo]' !iia,ii\- years its present siirfare iiiueli resembles nist^- iron. Aiiollier i^'oiig'e in the colleftion (No. 4555) is in. long, ill. wide at tattling edge, and weighs onl}* o'/. It is ground smooth and well iDunded, and with tlie gouge shown in, I'^ig. 92 seen,is to have been used in ear\ang the la,rge idols. At least the cnrvcd edge exaAly fits the interior enrve of the nostrils in two of the large idols in this Miisenm, The smaller gonge innst have re- (juired some scjrt of handle, as it is too short to hohl firmly in the fingers. Stone Figures,—Of the few animals that fell nnder the ol)servaiion of the ancient Ilawaiians the dog and pig were by far the most cherished, bnt I have ne\-er seen anv image either in wood or stone of these domestic animrds, and neither wa,s raised t,o the dignity 'A a god, althongh the deified hero Kania|)naa was half hog half nnui. Was the lotemistic idea loo |)owerfnl to admit of deifying the limited articles of animal food a,nd so banishing tliem from the larder? Willi certain fisli the case was different, and the Shark god was (»ne of the most powerful of the minor deities; hence probabU" we ha\'e a nnmbcr of more or less aectirate representations both in wood and stone of lliese dreaded fish. Ibvo tliat are in the Bishop lynsenm are shown in Fig. 93. 11 is curious that in llie sonlliern I^olynesian isbands representations of fish, oral least of fish as di\-inities, wx^re extreme]}- rare, and yet the harvest of the sea was quite as imporlajit tr) the sontheiii people as to their brethren dwelling iiortli of the tcpiator. [424]. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and a
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