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Nasta 'liq calligraphy by Isma'il Jalayir, Iran, c. 1860 CE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Manuscript with verses in diagonal lines of nasta 'liq script, written by Mir Emad Hassani, Iran, c. 1608-9. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Album leaf with Shi'a invocation in nasta' liq calligraphy, written by Muhammad Salih, Northern India, 17th century. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Menehune on Surfboard by D. Howard Hitchcock (1861-1943), 1924. The Menehune are short-statured forestd-dwelling people in Hawaiian mythology.

Daguerreotype of American missionary, Reverend Hiram Bingham I (1789–1869) - 1852. Bingham spent over twenty years in Hawaii.

Alekoko "Menehune" fishpond is a 102-acre (41.2 hectares) construction located along a bend of the Hule’ia River on the island of Kaua’i, Hawaii. The building of the fishpond is attributed to the mythical Menehune.

Facing stones in the Kīkīaola irrigation ditch, which is also known as the Menehune Ditch in Waimea, Kauai, Hawaii. Construction of the ditch is attributed to the Menehune - a mythical race of dimunitive Hawaiians.

Kīkīaola - also known as the Menehune Ditch - is an irrigation channel ('auwai) on Kauai, Hawaii, said to have been built by the Menehune.

Swedish-born Hawaiian ethnologist and judge, Abraham Fornander (1812-1887). Photograph taken in c. 1878.

Thomas George Thrum (1842-1932), Australian author of the Thrum's Hawaiian Annual.