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Hawaiian Nets and Netting. 



of what is now available in this Museum to students of ethnology, greater attention 

 has perhaps been given to detail than a general description would call for. It has been 

 necessary to make a liberal use of the native names, 

 which at the present day are liable to be inaccurately 

 applied. And again it has been found that some- 

 times in different islands of the group one name may 

 be emplo3-ed for different articles, and dissimilar 

 names for the same thing. 



Piko, — The piko is a ring of cord at the bot- 

 tom of the koko, attached to which, by loops, knots or 

 half hitches, is a row or circle of loops on which the 

 hanai is begun. The habitual position of natives 

 when doing all such work was sitting on the ground, 

 with one leg over the other and the upper foot pro- 

 jeAing slightly. From the big toe of this foot the 

 cord was stretched, and the diagrams of the tech- 

 nique herein have been drawn as if in the same posi- 

 tion, unless specially mentioned. 



Of piko, there were observed fourteen forms 

 in specimens obtainable, and in the following descrip- "i"- "'"■ "uhwai. g(hiki) water p.otti.k. 

 tions of the modes of operation the arrow heads point towards the shuttle or ball of cord. 



Piko A (Figs, no and 

 III). — A piece of cord is first 

 knotted into a ring with the 

 loose ends closely severed. 

 In the first figure, at the 

 point b the shuttle is passed 

 over and under the ring, over 

 the free end of the cord ^?, 

 under and over the ring and 

 back through the loop along a. 

 At c a simple knot is tied on 

 a and the half hitches at b are 

 repeated at b' leaving a loop 

 at d. The loops (from 6 to 12 ) are formed in this manner and completed by the return 

 cord c making a knot with a at f. The work from this point is part of the hanai. 



FIG. 1117. OLOWAI. IIOUKI) WATER BOTTLE FOIt (.'ANOE. 



