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on the body side; the legs are slightly notched to prevent slipping on the smooth sur- 

 face of a mat bed. I know of no other specimen of the stone pillow; only the frail mat 

 pillows have survived to the present time. 



Kapa Moe. — Thej^ also had bed clothes {kapa moc) of the paper made by felting 

 the fibres of the paper mulberry into large sheets, five of which usuall}' formed a knina 

 and were stitched together with a tape of kapa at one edge leaving the others free. 

 The sheets were of an average size of six b}' eight feet, but there is one in this Museum 

 ten and a half feet by twelve, and others nearly as large. Four of the kuina or set of 



FIG. I02. STONE PILLOW FROM KILAUFA, KAUAI. 



sheets were generally white or yellow, while the outside sheet i^kilohana^ was colored 

 or decorated with imprinted figures or lines. Such a kuina was quite warm, and I 

 have found them unbearable over my ordinary clothes when sleeping on the summit 

 of Mauna Loa (13,675 ft.) when water was freezing at my feet. The Hawaiians of the 

 olden time were clothed onl}' in the inalo, a strip of kapa or matting perhaps nine 

 inches wide and two yards long; this with the women became a pa''u which was about 

 a yard wide and of considerable length ; neither sex wore night clothes. Both sexes, 

 however, used in cold weather a shawl of kapa called kilici. Some authors have 

 stated that the Hawaiians wrapped themselves in the kapa moe in sleeping, and I have 

 seen them go to the door of their house on a chill}' night in the mountain region 

 wrapped in it as a white man might use a blanket, but while it is quite probable that 

 they had individual peculiarities in the matter, those I have consulted have generally 

 slept with the kapa moe over them in the usual manner of bed coverings. Precisely 

 in this wa}' those who slept the last sleep were covered by a sheet of black kapa, and 

 one recalls the message sent by the last king of Kauai to the conquering Kamehameha, 



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