IpH Lei. 



149 



polio alio were composed of bowl-shaped gourds, and others of long narrow gourds, 

 covered with half a small gourd or coconut. 



Similar cordings enclosed both st3-les, and the most finished in appearance is 

 tliat around the ipu le'i in Fig. 158. This cording, called koko, or koko ipu le'i, is a 

 combination of the aha liawele firmly fastened around the wooden part, to the upper 

 cords of which a netting is attached to en- 

 close the cover. The netting is closed around 

 the cover by a draw string, which also serves 

 to carr}- the utensil. In a few specimens the 

 aha liawele has been dispensed with, the 

 netting being fastened through holes bored 

 in the upper edge of the lower part. Fig. 159. 

 This last method 

 was also used on 

 the Iiiiiai pocpoc, 

 which have been 

 treated by Dr. 

 Brigham in the 

 previous portion of 

 this memoir. An- 

 other and sim- 

 pler method of 

 attaching cords 

 to these articles 

 is shown in Fig. 

 160; here the ^'''- '56- F'g. 157. 



HURWAI WITH AHA HAWELE. 



edge of the lower 



part has been pierced at two opposite points, from which two cords were led upwards 



through holes in the cover. 



Before passing from the gourd cordings, it might be in order to mention the 

 several means of securing handles to gourds in vogue among the natives. The sim- 

 plest form noticed is a coir or hau cord around the neck of the huewai, when the mouth 

 of the gourd bulges. Fig. i6ia\ some of the cords were roughly' made and tied, but in 

 others the cord has been braided and then attached by a double half hitch. A few of 

 the huewai pueo have also been treated in this manner, Fig. 161b. When the huewai 

 was not pueo or bulged at the mouth, then a handle was sometimes attached by making 

 a hole at the base of the neck and through it drawing and knotting both ends of a loop 

 of coir or hau cord or braid. Fig. i6\d, or, by boring the edge of the mouth at two 



