. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. Old I I ail HI ii'a n Ca 17 'I'jie's, required for ordinary dog- teelli. Tlic yotiiiger woman lias a liolc drilled in the back of the nioiitf! perhaps for attacliing a tongue. Tlie waist, especially in ilic \-cnniger woriian, is contracted, and tliere is a cairiotis ridge 1}ctween tdie abdominal and pn1)ic regions. This ridge in also sliown in an image in the i^Insenm (No. 7656) wliieli nniy be a poor attenipl at a portrait. In tlie Miisenni figure ibe liajids ;irc belter wron
. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. Old I I ail HI ii'a n Ca 17 'I'jie's, required for ordinary dog- teelli. Tlic yotiiiger woman lias a liolc drilled in the back of the nioiitf! perhaps for attacliing a tongue. Tlie waist, especially in ilic \-cnniger woriian, is contracted, and tliere is a cairiotis ridge 1}ctween tdie abdominal and pn1)ic regions. This ridge in also sliown in an image in the i^Insenm (No. 7656) wliieli nniy be a poor attenipl at a portrait. In tlie Miisenni figure ibe liajids ;irc belter wronglit than in either of the fcnia,le im- ages here figured; the breasts are \\\A\ modeled and show the large Hawaiian nipple. Idle cadf of the leg is, lir)\\^e\^cr, affected with ele|)hantiasis, and the balajiiH> is deslro^-ed. The head is rciiiarkablv braeliy(x^|)halie, the ears small and high, nose |)roniinent and cnrxtal, month open ami with thin lii)s, no signs tif ti-eili or tongue. ldiee\x:'S wei'eof sbtdl and the lioU-s fen' the attaching [icgs are neither central ncn* symmetrical. 'Idie holes h)r attaidiing the hair are of the rndi-sl ftniti, and wdiile the Iniir is gone the pegs generadh^ remain. Another ajiatomicnd iiMlnre stdchmi sliown is the dinj)hragina!ie line si-paratlng idlest from abdomen. This image was h>r nann^ _years in the ealdnet of the American Iioard of C()nimissi<mers for h'oixign jMissiniis at Boston. I can hardU* sa\' wh\% bni these two feniadc fignrc'S remind me sti-ongl}^ «d t he rild-fashioned hgiircdieads of ships," whicdi, however, often had less e\|)ressi«)n ihan these, and it is cpiite possible that the iia^^^ tive artist liad lessons from stnne linropcan or American sailor, for I shonld ha nil v phicc these earviiigs earlier than tlic early part of the nineteenth cenlnry, or pessil)ly the last deeadc of the eighteenth. At the time of tlie destrne^ion of the id(ds, after the kapii was In-oken, many. ?\'!i*,w OB' ai;makca. U7>
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