182 The Ancient Hawaiian House. 



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919S 



9199 Fig. 149. 



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9206 Goblet shape. 5 ■ 7-5 



Finger Bowls : IpU Holoi I/ima. — An article of elegauce doubtless confined 



to the Hawaiian aristocracy, — the Alii, were the finger bowls so comfortable to the 



guest at a meal of greasy dog or pig, where fingers were the onlj- forks, and not 



less where the food was sticky poi. It was usual after eating the meat to dip the 



fingers into the poi umeke and finish with the ipn holoi lima. In 



many cases the hands were also washed before meals, but this 



was not the case with the common people, who were, according to 



the missionaries who first had to suffer from their filth, dirty in 



FIG. 169. 

 the extreme. 



These bowls were of most varied forms as maj- be seen by Fig. 170 and Plate 

 XXX, but may be divided into two general classes: one where the bowl has a single 

 compartment for water; the other where the struAure is more complicated and pro- 

 vides not only for water but also for leaves to serve as napkins. Of the latter class, 

 the more uncommon one, are the three bowls in the lower half of the figure. The one 

 at the left has one compartment for water, one for the unused leaves, and another to 

 receive the used leaves ; the one on the right has two places for water and two for 

 leaves, while the one in the middle has one bowl for each. All three are each carved from 

 a single piece oi wood and are well finished as befits ro3'al use. Mauy examples of the 

 other and more popular class are seen in the plate and in the upper row of the figure. 



One of the most curious is shown in Fig. 169, a sketch of one in the Berlin 

 Museum fiir Volkerkunde. Almost as bizarre are the two in the centre of the plate. 

 In most cases there is in the interior of the bowl a ridge or projeAion to remove the 

 poi from between the fingers; in one, No. 610 in the Bishop Museum, this projection 



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