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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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l surface and the hairs arc thus heldsecurely without any cement. These holes aredistinctly seen on the back of the head of the firstfigure where the hair seems to have broken offbut not come out. The empty square holes aremore plainly shown in the carved bowl (Fig. 7).The eyes are of flat pearl shell, large and held in place without cement. Only one has been drilled, although it was common, especiallyiu the feather and wicker work heads, to drill a rather large hole through which around head peg held the shell fast and served to give the expression of a pupil to theeye. The Maori made a similar eye of paua shell, but the central peg was usually anintegral part of the head. The older woman has a block of artificial teeth inserted inher lower jaw, a curious deviation from the method used in many of the god images ofinserting dog teeth. I have never seen human teeth used in this way, although in oneidol in this Museum (No. 7658) there are cavities in the mouth larger than would be (I70)
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PIG. 5. SIDE VIEW <)F A.UMAKUA. Old Hawaiian Carvings. required for ordinary dog teeth. The younger woman has a hole drilled in the backof the mouth perhaps for attaching a tongue. The waist, especially in the youngerwoman, is contracted, and there is a curious ridge between the abdominal and pubic regions. This ridge is also shown in animage in the Museum (No. 7656) whichmay be a poor attempt at a portrait. Inthe Museum figure the hands are betterwrought than in either of the female im-ages here figured; the breasts are wellmodeled and show the large Hawaiiannipple. The calf of the leg is, however,affected with elephantiasis, and the balanceis destroyed. The head is remarkablybrachycephalic, the ears small and high,nose prominent and curved, mouth openand with thin lips, no signs of teeth ortongue. The eyes were of shell and the holes (for the attaching pegs are neither centralnor symmetrical. The holes for attachingthe hair are of the rudest form, and whilethe hair is gone the pe

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