. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. POf POUNDERS^ 43 I have wondered wlietlier the Hawaiian priesthood was enough like^ other priest- hoods to eling teiiaeioiisly to the use of ancient implements as well as forms, I have , ^ , _ ^ no information at first hand on the matter, for the ? priests had ceased to perforin their fnncStions, at least in public, before m\' da}-, liiit in the rnins of a temple on tlie slopes of the Kaala range on Oahii, were found b_y Messrs. Bryan and Heale of the Museum staff, several pou
. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. POf POUNDERS^ 43 I have wondered wlietlier the Hawaiian priesthood was enough like^ other priest- hoods to eling teiiaeioiisly to the use of ancient implements as well as forms, I have , ^ , _ ^ no information at first hand on the matter, for the ? priests had ceased to perforin their fnncStions, at least in public, before m\' da}-, liiit in the rnins of a temple on tlie slopes of the Kaala range on Oahii, were found b_y Messrs. Bryan and Heale of the Museum staff, several pounders of antique form two of which arc shown in Fig. 41. No. 10,031 is made of a kiva closely resembling stratified sand- stone, and is considerabl}- flattened. No. 10,032 is of a citrionsly shortened form. Both bear marbs of long use. The AHi or Chiefs were par- ticular abont their poi pounders, carrying their own on journ,eys, and sonic of the Afoi or Kings placed a kapn 011 their private pounders. In the Bishop Museum is the '\sacred" pounder of the great Kamehameha, a small form easil}- carried on a jonrney or war-like expedition. It escaped. A N CIK KT 11 .\ W AI r ;\ X I'OUNDIvR. l)eing pi 1 otograpl 1 - cd as it was in the case with relics and not with the other more ple- beian pounders. Under the circum- stances the priests, wdio by this same kapu ruled the Kings, probabl}' were equally par- ticular abont their own ponnders. Another native custom had its in- fluence on the sixe if not the form of some ponnders. Tlie maka aiuaria or people, as distinguished from the chiefs and clergy, had neither any property nor anv rights that their rulers were bound to respect. "' [375J. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum. Honolulu : Bishop Museum Press
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