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The Ancient Hawaiian House. 



Hawaii precisely as the Maori and his wife are represented doing at the present day 

 in the native villages of New Zealand.'' 



The tools used by the old Hawaiians were a stick of dry, soft wood {liau was 

 commonly used), of such size as to be conveniently held between the feet or by another 

 person ; and a much smaller stick of hard wood held in the hand and moved rapidly 

 and with force to and fro in a groove on the soft stick called aunaki (in Maori katiahi), 

 and the harder wood plow 

 aulitiia (in Maori kaurima- 

 rima)!'° With a few rubs the 

 friction is sufficient to char 

 the wood and in about a min- 

 ute the dust that collects in 

 the bottom of the groove ig- 

 nites and the flame is dexter- 

 ously caught on a bit of 

 tinder or a ivclii aJii (No. 4247, 

 Fig. 99), composed of twisted 

 or braided kapa : this also 

 serves for slow match. The 

 olie pulii alii (No. 166, Fig. 

 99), a joint of slender bambu, 

 served to blow the fire when 

 kindling."' With volcanic fire 

 perpetually burning on the 

 largest island of the group, 

 and traditionally the one 



"This pair of Uriniera Maori was 

 a most interesting antitjue and fully im- 

 bued with the ancient waj's and spirit 

 of the old New Zealauder. When they 

 visited the white man's town for the first 

 time they showed almost the stoicism 



of the Amerind at the sight of great novelties, and their comments were often quaint and amusing. The woman 

 thought the white folks must be fools to build one house on top of another when land was abundant ! 



""There is more than a passing interest in the comparison of the words used to designate these fire-sticks in 

 Hawaiian and other Polj^nesian dialects, .lulinia, an a handle (also the motion of the hand in mixing poi), lima 

 the hand (also the numeral live from the number of lingers ); in Maori kauriinaiima (1 and r often interchangeable 

 in Polynesian words); Tahitian aiiriiiin; Mangarevan koiiriinn. The lower piece is named in Maori kaiia/ii or kaii- 

 iio/i, in Tahitian aiiai, Mangarevan kannati. As to the Maori kauritnariina, Mr. Ivlw.ird Tregear remarks in his 

 Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary ,5«i^ for^, "This is probably the only Maori word in which rivia is used 

 for 'hand', although rinia [or litna\ is 'hand' or 'five' almost everywhere else in Polynesia." The motion of rubbing 

 is Ilia in Hawaiian. 



"It is not necessary to go farther into the process of fireniaking by two sticks, as this has been already well 

 done by Dr. Walter Hough in the report of the U. S. National Museum for 1888; Ijut in that paper Mr. R. lirough 

 Smythe is quoted as attributing the use of the lire-plow to all Australians; the drill was more widely used on the 

 Australian continent. 



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FIG. 99. HAWAIIAN FIRE MAKING TOOLS: IN BISHOP MUSEUM. 



