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gathered the pulp of which makes a paste. The root of mahoe is 

 sometimes used. The soft bark of the cocoanut is scraped off and 

 yields a reddish-brown dye. A stampis made of dry leaves of the 

 paoonga sewed together so as to be of sufficient size, and after- 

 ward embroidered with cocoanut-husk fiber. These stamps are 

 generally two feet long by half a foot broad. They are tied into 



Fig. 5. Garment of Beaten Bark. South Sea Islands. 



the convex side of cylinders of wood six or eight feet long, with 

 the pattern side up. The bark cloth is laid on and smeared over 

 with a piece of gnatoo dipped in dye. Another piece of the gnatoo 

 is laid over the first, so as not to exactly match it. Both are pieced 

 out in all directions, and three layers are built, each being stained 

 separately. The process is continued until a piece six feet broad 

 and forty or fifty yards in length has been printed. This is folded 

 and baked under ground, to harden and darken the dye, also to^ 



