Planting the Posts. 



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which the lashings were passed'" (Fig. 75). All this shaping has been done while the 

 timbers were on the ground and doubtless the kuenehale has had the holes dug and 

 the posts cut to a proper length before the raising. But no : this pole is too long and the 



hole has to be deepened not only with the 

 00 but with a noise as that which over- 

 threw the walls of Jericho: or the hole may 

 extend to a large rock, and then the pou 



POU FROM WAIALUA. 



FIG. 74. POU FROM WAIALUA. 



has to be cut shorter. All these dela3's and con- 

 tretemps are taken with perfect good nature: 

 time is of little value, and mahope is better than 



today! When at last these corner posts are ^'^'^- 75- 



placed to the satisfadlion of the kuenehale, a line is fastened between the posts at top and 

 bottom, and the other posts, which are of the same shape as the corner posts but sometimes 



'"This large pou, which measures 36 inches in circumference and is 9.5 feet long, was found by the Rev. W. D. 

 Westervelt in a swamp at Waialua, Oahu, and by him given to the Museum. The log is hollow, and was probably 

 so when first used. 127^1 



