Caroline Fslaiids Mat Beds. 



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ingeniously surmounted the difficult}' by trimming the ends of the leaves underneath 

 for about one-third of an inch, the remaining portion being bound with pandanus leaf 

 in several layers sewed on over and over with coco cord. The individual leaves are 

 bound together hy untwisted hibiscus fibre, -and 

 the whole strudlure is well adapted for rolling up. 

 In use the unrolled portion is the bed, that remain- 

 ing rolled up is the pillow, of which the shortest 

 persons have the greater share. These mats are 

 made in different sizes, as may be seen by the 

 measurements of the few in this Museum: 



Sleeping Mat or Lock No. 7835, 49X120 in.; from Ponape. 

 Sleeping Mat or I^ock No. 3493, 16. 2X120.7 in.; from Ponape. 

 Sleeping Mat or Lock No. 3492, 18X32 in.; fragment. 



Among the fabrics of sewed pandanus are 

 the fine kites of the Gilbert group. Like the Ebon 

 mats already described and figured are the mat 

 coverings for sails when furled, common where 

 mat sails are used, as these sails are too heav}' to 

 be easily removed but are more conveniently cov- 

 ered while in the canoe. Models of these are in 

 the Bishop Museum collec?lion of canoe models. 



Pillows = Uluna. — A simple work of 

 the pandanus weaver were the very comfort- 

 able pillows made in the form of a parallelo- 

 pipedon and stuffed usuall}- with the- harder 

 parts of the same hala leaves. Strips 3/8 in. 

 wide were tisually used in the common 

 forms, but in No. 1144, shown in Fig. 44, a 

 much wider strip is used (J'8 in.) and orna- 

 mentation is added by the insertion of darker 

 leaves in the finished pillow. In No. 1147, 

 a specimen from Queen Emma's colledlion, 

 double strips 1.2 in. wide are used. In Nos. 

 7732-33 the ends of the latter are of the usual 

 2s/% in. strip and plain, while the rest of the pillow is covered with narrow {y% in.) dark 

 strips twilled to form ornamental zigzags or checkers. This covers the whole of 

 No. 7732. After the pillow was woven it was embroidered with the dark strips by 



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Fig. 43. STRUCTURE OF CAROLINE M.\T. 



