. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. verlieal. 'T\\q oilier one in the same figiivc ( No. 7878) 1 ailribiile with very little doiihi to New Zealand. lis inaJn peenliaritv i-- the transverse ridge on the faee, not an in;- common featnre in ]\Iaori a,d/.es, whieli seems to have served to keep the handle in plae(-. We ctnne now to the ^faori adzes, whieii have been considered most closel}* related to the Haw^aiian. In I^late LIX. are shown len Kpecimens of consideral)le variation in form, and 1 cannot beliex'e that
. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. verlieal. 'T\\q oilier one in the same figiivc ( No. 7878) 1 ailribiile with very little doiihi to New Zealand. lis inaJn peenliaritv i-- the transverse ridge on the faee, not an in;- common featnre in ]\Iaori a,d/.es, whieli seems to have served to keep the handle in plae(-. We ctnne now to the ^faori adzes, whieii have been considered most closel}* related to the Haw^aiian. In I^late LIX. are shown len Kpecimens of consideral)le variation in form, and 1 cannot beliex'e that their total dissimilarity to the Hawaiian forms is due solely io tlie different material used in the two groups (greenstone'"* and })honolite). In three of the specimens (6952, 6944 and 15^)7! we see the angnlar blade already noticed in Hawaiian specimens,—in all such. 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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