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Mat and Basket Wea-ving. 



No. 3887 has no cover and was made as an independent basket ; the rim is neatly 

 braided and the rounds are three-ply. The rods, added as the diameter increases, are 

 not always spliced to those already in place, but are interpolated like a V, making two 

 rods for each insertion. Height 17 in., diameter 14 in. Has been mended in places 

 with a "darn" of coco fibre cord. 



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Fig. 66. group of flat-topped Hawaiian baskets. 



No. 3843 is similar to the last, but of coarser workmanship; the rounds are still 

 three-ph', and the rims both of basket and cover are of a number of strips intertwined 

 around the bent ends of the rods, as shown in Fig. 67. Height 17 in., diameter 12 in. 



Not onU^ umeke and correspond- 

 ing gourds were covered with basketry 

 by the old Hawaiians, but also the 

 huewai or gourd water bottles, prob- 

 ably in all cases for additional strength; 

 but with the huewai it also helped to 

 keep the contents cooler. When I first 

 saw the following specimen I was in- 

 clined to think the natives in modern 

 times had copied the wicker-covered glass bottles used as perfume bottles or pocket 

 flasks by the foreigners, but I am assured by old Hawaiians that their people made 

 such water bottles in ancient times. 



No. 5350 is a huewai or water bottle of gourd covered with a closely-woven 



FIG. 67. 



3 S +3. 



RIM OF BASKET NO. 3843. 



