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The Ancient Hawaiian House. 



natives. The introduAion of higher doors was perhaps the first and most general 

 innovation; next came the windows, whether mere />?</&« makani^ openings without glass 

 onl}' for ventilation, and these had been known althougli not generally used long before, 

 or the new puka aniani or windows of glass, certainly a wholly foreign introduction 

 Next, perhaps, were wooden floors and partitions within the house. After that the 

 house ceased to be native. We have several illustrations of this changing style: 

 first, the Hale Kauila (house built of kauila wood) which once stood on the street in 



FIG. 94. HOUSE OF KAMEHAMEHA V AT WAIKIKI. HALE LAMA. 



Honolulu which still bears the name of this large council chamber or reception room 

 (Fig. 92). It will be seen from the illustration that while the thatch is attached in 

 the usual waj^ the pou or posts are much higher than usual and of squared timber; 

 but the most foreign touch, apart from the windows, are the cross braces at the top and 

 between the posts and the plate. It is true that they are too short to greatly stiffen the 

 frame, but they were never used in genuine native work. The scene is characteristic 

 of the time (July, 1837), I will quote the description by Captain du Petit-Thouars of this 

 house (which he calls the house of the Queen Kinau). It must be remembered that 

 the French oflicer had come to Honolulu to reinstate the Romish priests who had been 

 banished by the native government, aud had been joined by Captain Belcher of the 

 Sulphur who was in port at the same time, and the notorious Charlton, British Consul, 

 and Jones the American Consul, none of them friends of the American Mission, and 



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