Note 93 — CONTENTS. (continued 5)

This was the important hewing and carving instrument of early Hawaiians, made from the finest and hardest of clingstone, and of various sizes for the work designed, whether for quarrying rock, felling trees and shaping them for canoes, for house construction, surf-boards, carving of idols, etc., for it was axe, adze, chisel, gouge and plane to the patient workman. ↑