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Hawaiian Nets and Ncltitig. 



and the bail fastened to the waist. A plain and chaste style of aha hawele was found 

 on an old broken hucwai in the colleftion Fig. 156, the cord of which was more 

 neatly braided than on any of the other specimens. Another form, rarely used, is 

 shown in Fig. 157. 



A form of water gourd used in the canoes was called olowai, Fig. 107. The 

 writer has not been able to learn any specific name for the aha on this gourd, and since 

 only two (Nos. 3877 and 38S0) out of the 

 five specimens in the colledlion have aha 

 exadlly similar, the probabilities are that 

 each individual followed his own taste in 

 cording. In the aha figured, Fig. 107, the 

 work was done hy making two half hitches 

 on the bottom of the gourd, and on the 

 rings thus made four loops of single cord 

 were formed large enough to reach the 

 middle. Tlie cord was then brought to the 

 neck of the bottle and fastened b}' two half 

 hitches. A set of four loops was attached 

 to these rings, at the same time passing in 

 turn through the bights of the previous 

 set, thus drawing the lashings tightly 

 around the gourd. The cord was then made 

 to follow the cords of each loop and an eye was 

 formed by tying at each bight. The double 

 ring at the middle was added last. For the' 

 bail, suspended over the side of the bottle, 

 a separate cord was used. Another aha, on ^^"^^ 'ss- hiewai puho with aha hawele. 



specimen No. 3995, is similar to that in Fig. 107, except for the double ring in the 

 middle. Of the other specimens of corded olowai, one. No. 3879, is enclosed in an aha 

 hawele, and the other. No. 3881, in a large-meshed netting. 



Ipii Ic^i^ ipn ho/o/iolona, poJio alio and ipu alio are among the names used to desig- 

 nate a utensil, consisting of two pieces, for containing fish hooks and lines. There are 

 two general forms of this article: one with the lower and smaller part of wood covered 

 with a larger gourd. Figs. 158 and 159, and the other of gourd with the lower larger 

 than the upper part. Fig. 160. There is some confusion now as to the correct names 

 and uses of the different styles, but the best information seems to be that the former, 

 called ipu le'i or ipu holoholona, was for the purpose of holding bait in addition to 

 hooks and lines, and the latter, polio alio, for the fishing tools alone. Some of the 



