Upcna Eke. 



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zontal bag, tapering but slightly away from the mouth, which is at one end. At the 

 other end in the specimen is an opening less than half the size of the mouth, where 

 probably was fastened a closed bag of smaller size. In sedlion, the bag is semicircular, 

 with the arc above. The bottom part of the net called Jiomia is anchored by stones 

 at the corners of the mouth and at two points along each side about ten and twenty 

 feet from the mouth. Between these points, stretching the honua wide are sticks 

 called piilii. There is another stone at the tail end of the bag. To the upper curved 

 part, called laiia^ the pikoi are fastened in great numbers in irregular rows. Heavy 

 ropes of hau run the whole length of the bag, one along each edge and one on each 



slope of the lana 

 t II ^ett ,, about 8 feet from 



the edge. The 

 total length of 

 the lana is 39 

 feet, the first 21 

 feet from the 

 mouth being 

 light cord of 

 .08 inch in 

 thickness 

 and of 1.5 

 inches mesh, 

 and the rest of heavy cord .17 inch thick and 1.2-1.4 inches mesh. The lana is 29 feet 

 in width at the mouth, measuring the ropes, and the lighter portion is made up of five 

 pieces of wide netting averaging 33 meshes long and decreasing from 407 meshes wide 

 in the first piece at the mouth to 23S meshes in the fifth. The pieces are run together 

 by aea, in this net called iwi piilii. This method of tapering a net seems to have been 

 preferred by natives to the use of the knot known as makakukai, already mentioned. 

 The heavier part of the lana is in two pieces, 112 and 70 meshes long, and respedlively 

 170 and 165 meshes wide. Of the honua, there remains but one piece, of the heavier 

 cord, at the rear end. It is about 11 feet or 113 meshes long and 130 meshes wirle. 

 Leading away from the sides of the mouth, there should be two long nets called pakii^ 

 the same depth as the bag, at a wide angle to each other, as a drive. The net on the 

 right is said to be 15 fathoms long, and that on the left 10 fathoms. Upcna ko/o is 

 said to be a net on the same lines as the preceding, but on a much larger scale. 

 The same is reported of the net used in Laic kapalili. It is probable that the nets 

 called />rt/>c^/^«//^^' and au-mai-ewa and used in conjundlion with each other are also similar. 



Memoirs B. P. B. Museum, Vol. II, No. i. — ii. 



NO. 1^5. 



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DIAGRAM OF UPENA NAE KUKU. 



