. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. lite Union (h'onp. 41 came as near the idea as tlie Greek in liis CliiriKcra or Hvdra. Tlie figure given in illustration ( Fig. 31) is a remarkably fine bit of old carving, in ]irivate liands in Ajiek- land, wlien 1 saw it a few years ago. Other carved slal)s were loinid with, it buried in a .swamp, and on all tlic carving was of the highest order, although in sonic ])laces decayed. The designs were often reniarkahly obscene l(» tlu^ Angh>-Saxon seirse, althongli proper eno
. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. lite Union (h'onp. 41 came as near the idea as tlie Greek in liis CliiriKcra or Hvdra. Tlie figure given in illustration ( Fig. 31) is a remarkably fine bit of old carving, in ]irivate liands in Ajiek- land, wlien 1 saw it a few years ago. Other carved slal)s were loinid with, it buried in a .swamp, and on all tlic carving was of the highest order, although in sonic ])laces decayed. The designs were often reniarkahly obscene l(» tlu^ Angh>-Saxon seirse, althongli proper enough to the Maori. he ^N-r/^-* W;rSfeKl * y V'-*%. ^ . % W-ifi.:..,;.. fe^H^- ior,. 35. xi!.:ks CAi-:\^rX(; \ i-nrrur. It nn;iy be repeated tliat the strange figures on the f^(>n/nui or other parts of the Maori house represented ancestors, hirnnui or divine, of the owner •>[ the house, and the faces bear the moko or carved face decoration wlnbdi was disti!n;t in each head, ami cut on the living flesh nineh as the sculptor carved il 011 his block of An old Maori could have told who the carved face port raved froui the iiattcrti of the nioko. Union Group.—We may now return to the uiid^kaiafic, mA far Iroui Samoa, and between that group anxl the equator iu a!)out 9 ,S, lies the Ihiion (;r discovered Atalu in 1765, reported it. 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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