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Title: Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum (Honolulu)
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Publisher: Honolulu : Bishop Museum Press
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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- pull down with great labor in the dark and ill ventilated cave thecarefully placed wall and find in the chamber behind it perhaps nothing, perhaps afew crumbling bones or a decayed calabash. Of three explorers of the cave around which centres the interest of this account,one had often explored such caves in search of water, and coming from a side chamberwhere was a corpse in a canoe raised on a stand with choice mats and kapa, he noticeda wall not far from the entrance to this burial chamber (Fig. 1). After much hard worka small opening was made and the recess entered. There were fragmentary humanremains, but on one side of the chamber were the articles which are the subject of thispaper wrapped carefully in kapa. What connection they have, if any, with the bonesin the main cave, or those in the branch chamber I cannot say: perhaps they weresimply hidden here as the safest place of deposit known,—in the guardianship of the
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SKETCH Il.A.N OP- PART OS THE CAVE. Opening to cave- from gulch.Branch opening to b, closed with rocks.Branch opening to c, closed with rocks.Canoe with skeleton, feet to east. Wooden bowl with carved figure,lapamu or koiiane board. Two human figures, beads to east.Two auinakuas leaning against wall.Skulls and bones rolled in kana. Ipu aina with human teeth. Large gourd containing skeleton of infant. Old Hawaiian Carvings. c dead. It has been suggested that they form the paraphernalia of a temple and werehidden, as so many of the idols were, at the time of the general destruction of the idolsin 1819 in the hope that the storm would blow over and better times ensue, but thereis absolutely nothing in the collection to support such a view. The two gods oraumakua were household deities, the other articles might be the private property ofmemoirsofbernice0v2n2bern

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