112 Htuvaiian Ncis and Netting. 



Netted bags include the koko or detachable net used to carry or suspend the 

 iiii/ckc, wooden or gourd bowls containing food or clothing (Figs. 104 and 105), and 

 the cord permanently attached to various gourd utensils as a means of fastening a 

 handle thereto, generally known b}^ the name of the cord, a/ia (Figs. 106 and 107). 



Koko. — The koko is a bag, of cord netted or knitted, in the shape, when suspended, 

 of an inverted hemisphere superposed by an elongate cone. In technicjue it was divided 

 into three parts. Fig. 108, the first, following the order of the work, being />/X'c;=navel, 

 beginning, /i/t/nu=^root, 01 /'^>c;///(^//7/=starting place. The term poalia has been ap- 

 plied to this part, and many of the piko when completed would be large enough to act as 

 a poaha. The latter was a ring of rope or bound pandanus leaves, placed on the ground, 

 on which the rounded bottom of the umeke would rest. The second or main part was 

 often referred to as koko, but there was a technical word, Iianai, to represent it ;" the 

 word opii^=he\\y ^ any swelling surface, was also used for this part. The third, called 

 kakai ox aUIu\ was a cord interlooped. Fig. 113, with or knotted, Figs. 114 and 115, 

 to the outer edge of the lianai in two series. The names kakai and alihi seem to have 

 been used as frequenth' for the suspending cords of the koko, but since the name 

 alihi is also used for the head and foot ropes of the fishing nets, it might be better to 

 retain the name kakai for the koko. Each series was bound in the middle (ultimately 

 the top) by a single smooth winding, and .sometimes by half hitches, to make a/>« 

 (handle), and into these pu was the end of the aiiaiiio^ bearing stick, thrust to carry 

 the load, Fig. 153. The auamo, or miniaka, is a stick of hard heavj' wood, generally 

 kaiiila {Alphitonia cxcclsa)^ about six feet long and borne across the shoulder. 

 Fig. 109; the ends drop a little below the middle and are either notched or neatl}- 

 carved to hold the kakai. Fig. 153. For prote(5lion of food against animals, the koko 

 was suspended fi'om a wooden hook, kilon/' attached to the ridgepole of the hut, or 

 from a crossbar shaped like a canoe and notched around the edges; this implement was 

 called olco/e^'' or luika, and was placed on the top of a pole set in the ground. 



The work of making koko was done b}' one of the ka/iii or body servants of 

 the alii. Frequentl}' a kahii well skilled in such arts was in the service of the king, 

 who, to show favor to his friends, would place the skill of the kahu at their disposal. 

 Another source of manufa6lure was the common people, who brought great numbers 

 of koko to the alii in payment of taxes, and after the best had been selec^ted by the 

 chief and his friends, the poor ones might return to the commoner. 



Since this essay is intended to place on record this part of the natives' art now 

 forgotten, and the usefulness of which has entirely cea.sed, and also to give a catalogue 



^Lorrin Aiulrcws, A Dictionary of the Hawaiian Language. Honolnlvi, 1S65. 

 ^'Eflge-Partington and Heape : Eth. .\lbuni of Pacific Ids., Vol. Ill, PI. XV, No. I. 

 ■"Ibid., Nos. 2 and 3. 



