4454- 



4455- 



Alia Hcnvelc. 



Miscellaneous. 



Foreign koko; length 37.5, mesh 2.2. Figs. 149 and 150. 



Foreign koko; black woolen braid; knot, Fig. 150; length 20, mesh 2.6. 



147 



Aha. — Of the aha^^ or cords snrronnding and permanently fastened to gonrd 

 water bottles (hnewai, olowai, etc.) the most common was that known as haiuele — 

 sometimes referred to as koko liawele — and shown in Fig. 106 enclosing a hnewai. 

 There is in the colleftion a great nnniber of drinking and other gonrd vessels withont 



cordings which wonld have been carried in koko 

 punpnn or pnaln. The hnewai was a drinking 

 gonrd of large body and narrow neck for general 

 rise. The variety of forms of gonrd vessels was 

 very great, and was generally the resnlt of manip- 

 nlation when the frnit was green. 



The word hawele means a tj-ing or binding 

 on in which the joinings or loops are never knotted, 

 and the koko or aha hawele may be so recognized. 

 Details of teclmiqne of the aha hawele in Fig. 106 

 will be seen in Fig. 154, where, after a loop, /; ni c, 

 is made ronnd the neck of the bottle and tied at c?, 

 the cording continues in the direction indicated. 

 There is a slight error, for which the writer is re- 

 sponsible, in the drawing, for the cord f^ instead 

 of encircling b and e, shonld pass nnder and over 

 FIG. 154. DKTAiL 01^ .4 HA HAWEi,E. ^, ^nd d and under itself. A bail is then made by 

 carrj-ing^ over the top of the bottle, over ;;/, under //, over n and back around a and d. 

 When there are four or five thicknesses of cord in the bail, it is bound at several points 

 with half hitches by the end of .^, the latter being finally fastened to the wooden or 

 shell stopper. The material used was coir, spun or braided — seldom olona or hau. 

 A similar lashing, but more complex, was noticed on a gourd water bottle. No. 193 1, 

 from New Caledonia. 



A very neat fastening of the aha hawele has been made around a hnewai pueo 

 (Fig. 155) which is a water gourd shaped like an hour glass. In the figure, when 

 the aha hawele, as' shown in Figs. 106 and 154, was attached to the lower bulb, to its 

 upper cords another binding was added for the purpose- of enclosing the other part. 

 However, in a great number of the pueo with hawele the lower bulb is alone corded 



■"Aha should be applied only to (i) coir cord, (2) cord of human liair, (3) strings made from intestines. (See 

 Andrews' Dictionary.) Other cords, such as olona, should be termed a/w. 



