The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-06-10
VALUABLE WORKS
Additions to Collection at Bishop
Museum.
SCULPTOR HUTCHINSON'S WORK
Hawaiian Figures in Life.
like Attitudes.
Models for the New Annex-Per-
petuating Some Old Ma
tive Customs.

The b. P. Bishop Museum trustees
have been fortunate in securing Mr.
Allen Hutchinson's services, before his
departure, in molding for the proposed
Hawaiian Annex, the capitals for the
three series of iron columns that will
support the galleries and give an artis-
tic completeness to the rotunda that is
planned for the center. On the lower
pillars are reproductions of the bread
fruit and leaves. The beautiful pinnati-
fid leaves are so treated as to give
great effectiveness to the graceful di-
visions of the edges of the four-sided
capitals, while the peculiar shape of the
fruit stands out in distinct outline in
the central portion of each side.
A similar effect. on a smaller scale,
characterizes the treatment of the ku-
kui nut, whose smaller leaves render
possible more variety of grouping. For
the upper pillars, the taro leaf makes a
simnle canitsl vet the erurnnlina &c che
edges and the veining of the arrow
headed leaves are so artistically man.
| Simple
as is the design. perhaps the most sat
isfactory of all, from an artistic point
of view.
Mr. Hutchinson has, also, made for
the proposed model of a Hawaiian
temple (heiau) series of IDOLS On
small scale copied from those on ex
hibition in the Museum. The most diff
ficult of all to reproduce was the large
one recently received from the cOllec-
ton of the American Boar6 in Boston.
cites so much terror in many Of the
Hawaiian visitors, is male to do serv-
ice as the keystone of the IS arches
around the rotunda. >
The series of casts. from life, of Ha-
waiians, busy at the various industries
of by-gone days, las just been COM
pleted by a cast Cf the poi, which two
typical Hawaiia1s, boy and stall
wart man, are bus preparing for the
calabash. A Haw;iian woman, beat
ing kappa with the e kuku uplifted, is
startlingly life-likt A young Hawai-
ian girl standing b her side, holding a
huewai "a calabasl with water), makes
a striking contras between the 1.-THE
and supple form d youthful graceful
ness and the stury, tense rightly of
the mature and sIlful worker, who is
as old as she loOB. The finest Speci-
men of muscula figure is the Olona
scraper. and Mr.. hutchinson achieved
a success. of with he may we'll be
proud, in secuTingso life-like a repro
| duction of such a difficult pose. The
man is represented as sitting on his
| toes and reaching forward to Scrape
| the fibre on the narrow strip of wood
1 in front of him. Yet, undoubtedly. most
people will be host impressed by the
cast of an old hhuna (medicine-man)
! mumbling the pie anaana, which is to
! secure the deab of his victim. The
hair is the genuine article in these
figures. The coorins of the skin is
true to life. AMI so are the peculiar
dark or light sp'Js thai appear on these
figures.
These artistic and anuine reproduc-
tions of old Hawaiian occupations are
safely boxed and stopd. awaiting the
completion OF the AneX. Then each
in a glass case. with suitable accesso-
ries. piles of taro, stris of olona, bun
dies of wauki. will reserve for all
time these memHtOs of a life that
even now has almtst etirely lapsed in
! TO oblivion.
| It is understood tina Mr.. Hutchinson
has in contemplation imilar work for
other nationaliti6 Ofthe Pacific-Fi-
iiians. Samoans. SOlmon Islanders.
and others-thst may find place in
the Bishop MUs6Im G other similar
institutions tat viii be fortunate
enough to Scure NJ Hutchinson's
| help in maFne. from life. groups or
single figurs, of peopks that are fast