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Haivaiian Nets and Netting. 



starving people, declared that lie would go to his father and demand rain. Provided 

 with koko of exceeding fine mesh" he approached the Polynesian Jove, who welcomed 



his son and filled 



the koko with 

 w a t e r. W h e n 

 Makalii returned 

 to earth the water 

 dropped through 

 the meshes of the 

 koko and fell as 

 rain." 



It is probable 

 that the two ac- 

 counts refer to the 

 same thing, as the 

 pule koko recorded 

 by Dr. Emerson 

 would fit the Koko 

 a Makalii, if anj-- 

 tliing, better than 

 the Koko a Mao- 

 lolia. As far as 

 known, no such 

 net as that used 

 in the ceremonies 

 has ever been pre- 

 served. There 

 may have been a 

 service at the end 

 of the makahiki 

 festival somewhat 

 similar to that 

 described by Malo 

 in commemoration 

 of Makalii's dar- 

 ing and beneficial act, but Malo's account is so nearly parallel with that of Peter's 

 vision'*'' that the two must have been confused. At the time of Malo's conversion to 



'^ Maka = mesh, and Hi = small. '"'Acts, 10; 11, 12. 



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FIG. 148. HANAI M. 



