/// Old Tuucs. 



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aipuiipuu. An old fisherman claimed that by the creak of the koko on the unieke as 

 the aipuupnu walked, the people conld tell when the koko of a chief were approaching. 

 Tyerman and Bennet referred to this custom:''^ "So stately, too, was the royal 

 etiquette, during his reign [Kamehameha I] that whoever happened to meet the king's 

 calabash of water, as it was brought from the spring to the house, was required to un- 

 robe, and lie down upon the earth, till the bearer of the vessel had gone b^-." 



Fig. 146. HANAI K. 



In Andrews' Hawaiian Didlionar}', a definition of the word viaololia occurs as: 

 "The ancient name of the strings or net for a calabash, equivalent to the modern word 

 koko." Natives were questioned about any knowledge of maoloha in these days, and 

 one old fisherman said that koko makalii or koko maoloha existed before the time of 

 Kamehameha the First, but were now no longer; that the name was now applied to 

 the koko carried by the man in the moon. David Malo, in his account "Moolelo 



■■-James Montgomery ; Journal of Tyerman and Bennet, Vol. II, p. 69. Boston, 1832. 



