Cnn'oits Netted Bag. 



127 



of the cord, which winding was termed uo^ Fig- i53- With the pu no, the kakai was 

 as a rule divided into two series of strings, and was rarely gathered together as one 

 pu ; this latter condition most frequently occurred with the commoners' koko, when 

 the pu was composed of half hitches, termed Uikk It was somewhat awkward to take 

 out the umeke from a koko with a single pii, the only opening being between the strings 

 of the kakai, but all the koko of this kind were of coir and most of them around the 

 large bowl-shaped gourds for transporting water, so it is quite probable that it was not 

 intended to remove them often. In length the kakai was about equal to the hanai and 



piko combined, inclining if 

 anything to be slightlj- 

 shorter. 



There is a remarkable 



form of netted bag in the 



Museum, No. 4454, Fig. 



149, the material and work- 



fiy ? ^^W>r;;g ;!^ 1- y '^UBI "-y -^C^i^^^^^^y manshlp of which is not 



\^[^^^t^t^ff^-'* -S. :^f -it^ ^^^ill^MM Wk recognized as Hawaiian by 



any native who has seen it. 

 It was in the late Hawaiian 

 Government Museum, and 

 came to the Bishop Museum 

 as a Hawaiian koko with 

 the rest of the collection, 

 but the curator of the for- 

 mer institution can give 

 no information, and conse- 

 quently none of its history 

 is available. However, an old native claims to have seen some such nets in the time of 

 Kamehameha V (1863-1872), when they were considered foreign. The material has the 

 appearance of jute, dyed an indistinct blue-green on the surface, but there are sure 

 signs that the cord was not made by machinery-. It differs from the Hawaiian koko in 

 having been made from a number of cords, and these cords diverge from a piko filled in 

 with matted string suggestive of the plaiting in straw hats (<•?, Fig. 149). Another point 

 of difference is the four separated handles in which the cords of the hanai are incorpora- 

 ted, each handle (/>) being a square braid of twelve strands. The technique. Fig. 150, is 

 the same as observed in the simpler portions of macrame work, and also the netting or 

 basket of fern stems around certain Japanese flower vases. Another bag. No. 4455, is 



FIG. 126. PIKO J. 



