Old time Hawaiians and their work . \vhich you have made. Perhaps you can thinkof other furniture to use in your house. STONEWORK The masons of long ago were strong men who lifted andcarried all the heavy stones by hand. Many men workedtogether, passing the stones from hand to hand or from ^ Ah ••--$ ?\^f xc Men Ell UN lib liuiLDiNG A Stune Wall shoulder to shoulder without dropping a single one. Themason had to be skillful in matching his stones so thatthe wall would be firm and strong. 79 8o OLD-TIME HAWAIIANS AND THEIR WORK Fishponds and heiaus needed the same kind of work-manship. Let us s
Old time Hawaiians and their work . \vhich you have made. Perhaps you can thinkof other furniture to use in your house. STONEWORK The masons of long ago were strong men who lifted andcarried all the heavy stones by hand. Many men workedtogether, passing the stones from hand to hand or from ^ Ah ••--$ ?\^f xc Men Ell UN lib liuiLDiNG A Stune Wall shoulder to shoulder without dropping a single one. Themason had to be skillful in matching his stones so thatthe wall would be firm and strong. 79 8o OLD-TIME HAWAIIANS AND THEIR WORK Fishponds and heiaus needed the same kind of work-manship. Let us see how a fishpond was made. Kame-hameha I had one constructed at a httle fishing villagecalled Kiholo. First a strong wall was built to inclose abay which was a half mile across. The wall was six feethigh in some places and twenty feet wide. Several archeswere raised, and under them stakes were driven into* theground far enough apart so that the water could come in,and near enough together so that the fish could not get Heiau constructed of Cardboard by Pupils of Fifth Grade Heiaus were built upon stone platforms and were in-closed by stone walls. Stories of the Menehunes tell howthey built heiaus and surprised the people. At Pepeekeo,in Hilo, Hawaii, the chief had ordered a heiau. After col-lecting a huge pile of stones the tired workers went aw^ayfor the night. In the morning they could hardly believetheir eyes, for there was the heiau all finished. Another heiau stands on a high cliff near Kalaupapaon Molokai. It is where no one can reach it, and thestones of which it is built are like the stones of the STONEWORK 81 seashore. How can this be accounted for unless it wasbuilt by fairies ? Do you remember that one legend tellsus that the heiau in Kohala, on Hawaii, was built by thepriest Paao ? Here the stones had to be carried from avalley several miles away to a grassy plain. The nimblelittle fairies passed them along so rapidly that the work,as usual, was finished
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