. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. 98 IlAirAflAN SJ'ONIi IMPLEMJiNTS. devotion and industry of Chiefs, priests and tlie men of the districts of the ish-md. On the other hand what the heathen cotiqnerer st3ared the "eivilized" white man has wan- tonly destroyed, for a heian near Honolnhi thai in 1880 was in a most interesti 1:114- con- dition has since l)een ground np in the roch-crushcr to make roads, and no stone is left to mark the plaee! Cut stones for l)uilding purposes were rare, and in all cases
. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. 98 IlAirAflAN SJ'ONIi IMPLEMJiNTS. devotion and industry of Chiefs, priests and tlie men of the districts of the ish-md. On the other hand what the heathen cotiqnerer st3ared the "eivilized" white man has wan- tonly destroyed, for a heian near Honolnhi thai in 1880 was in a most interesti 1:114- con- dition has since l)een ground np in the roch-crushcr to make roads, and no stone is left to mark the plaee! Cut stones for l)uilding purposes were rare, and in all cases they were shaped from sla1)s of hiva !)y patient hajnmeriiig. One of the flat stones (No. 4S99), formerly sniTonnding the altar in a small fishermen's heian on top of a steep volcanie cone over-. ri'M STONJ'S. looking tlie sea at Kapolio, on the eastern eoast of Hawaii, is in the Bishop !\Insenm, Its dimensions cire: k:ngth 48 in., width 26 in., and thickness in. vSome ent stones 01 a very different sort have been found at Kaihia, on the same island, bnried in the sands of the lieat:h, of which the original intent remains in doubt. The}- are called t\\Q f)()/Mk/{ kdiar (cut stones) of I'mi, and arc said to have been brought on donfjle canoes from some unknown cpiarry along the eoast jjrobablv now covered by some of the many lava flows of that region. One belonging to the Bishop Museum is 6 ft. long, 2 ft. wade, and 13 in. tliiek. ConkI tlicy have been used for landing-stones or wharves for the roya,l canoes on that sandy Ijeaeh ? They were well ent, and of a size and weight difficult to handle by simple muscular strength. Ikdore closing tliis brief chapter on Hawaiian wrought stones I may mention the stones found in sext^ral places, known as bell-stones from their great resonance. [430]. 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 perfec
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