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Title: Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History
Identifier: acs9793.0001.004.umich.edu
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum
Subjects: Natural history; Ethnology
Publisher: Honolulu : Bishop Museum Press
Contributing Library: University of Michigan
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Michigan

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76 HAWAIIAN STONE IMPLEMENTS, always seemed strange that the axe-makers did not bring the raw material down to their homes and work it up in comfort instead of freezing in their kapa garments at this great altitude. It may be that the mystery of the place and its very solitude kept the trade in few hands and so enhanced the value of a tool that so many must have. Another quarry on the same island was in an almost equally strange place, a lateral and deep crater of the volcano of Kilauea. The stone was obtained from the lower walls of the very deep pit and a subsequent flow of lava in the crater has covered all traces of the chips or working, but the name clings to the place (^Keanakakoiy the workshop of the adzes), and there are masses of clitikstone, often of large size, scattered about the vicinage of Kilauea, apparently ejeAed by some explosive eruption like that
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FIG. 74. CUTTING EDGES OF HAWAIIAN ADZES AND AXES. of 1789. All the adzes from these two quarries are dark-colored and very compact. On Maui, far up the slopes of Haleakala, was a quarry which I have never seen, nor do I know the location. I know of no quarries on Oahu, although they may have existed, for clinkstone is found in fragments near Aliapaakai and elsewhere. On Kauai, above Waimea, the port where Cook first landed, are extensive quarries, and from these what knowledge of the working of adzes I may have was obtained. Various stone enclosures mostly in ruin and popularly considered heiati or temples are about the ridge where the clinkstone was worked, and while some were workshops or habitations necessary for shelter in that rainy region, there is every reason to believe that temples to the tutelary gods of the guild of adze-makers were there as well, for the ancient Hawaiians were a very devout people, acknowledging invisible superiors in all handicraft, and doing no serious work without invoking the aid and protedlion of these deities. Of course the making of stone adzes ceased soon after the introdudlion of iron and I have never seen them made, nor have I talked direAly with any of the surviving makers, but I have seen them used and sharpened, and I have been astonished at the (408)

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