. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. SIX)Nit FIGURES. by a siii^ar plantation tliis image and its coinpanioii, wliicli will prcseiitl\- be described, were taken to Frankfori-on-tlie-^laiii by a German resident of Honoliihi. This gentle- man afterwards died, and hearing- that the images were l}-ing iiiieared for in their lalx' owner's eonrtyard, in 1896 while in Germany, 1 lioped to be al)k! to restore them to their native eonntry, I was three months too late, for on entering the great ninseii:n in Berlin I found
. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. SIX)Nit FIGURES. by a siii^ar plantation tliis image and its coinpanioii, wliicli will prcseiitl\- be described, were taken to Frankfori-on-tlie-^laiii by a German resident of Honoliihi. This gentle- man afterwards died, and hearing- that the images were l}-ing iiiieared for in their lalx' owner's eonrtyard, in 1896 while in Germany, 1 lioped to be al)k! to restore them to their native eonntry, I was three months too late, for on entering the great ninseii:n in Berlin I found tliey had recently secured a permanent resting phree there. Dr. Bastian, however, kindly had easts m,ade which are, by the courtesy of the German Government, now in the Bishop Musenm, and from these I have made the illnstrations, Pk LXI\k, and Fig. 94. The other image is not an idol (in the popular sense) but a portrait l)nst, and it was first known to tfie white popnlation of the islands when it stood in the valley of , Manoa, near Honolulu. It is claimed that it was there before Cook'^ arrival at Kanai (1778). The ruff, wig and cue suggest a vSpanish portrait of the time of the ea id 3' Spa n i s h di seoverers. Whether it was an at- tempt on the part of a native sculptor io repre- sent the white strangers, or whether some Span- iard of Juan de Gaetano's crew made it as a mcmo- rial of th^eir visit, I can- not say. The workmanship is much the same as on other stone images nndonhtedly Hawaiian, and the owner in , ^^'bo was a gentleman of educatum and especial!}' versed in Hawaiian legendary lore, always beliexxMJ that it was of HaAvaiian w(n-kma,n- sliij) and very ancient. The front and profik^ are shown in Fig, 94. The 1)ust is ^,2 inches high. It is the only portrait 1 have seen, for the usual idols are not "likenesses of any form that is in Heaven above, or that is in the hkirth Ijeneath, or that is in the water under the earth". I have mentioned the images f
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