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The Ancient Haivaiian House. 



men, and a march on their heels up and down m^- spine. I think they, in the course 

 of this, ran their heels down every rib as if it were the key of a piano. They also 

 "cracked" each finger joint and even my neck; at first it was ticklish; then dreamy; 

 then restful, and after an hour of this I got up so refreshed that I could have ridden 

 all night. Instead I at once fell asleep. 



Foreigners have learned the process to some extent, but the old native poe 

 lonnlonii are extinct.*"' On the whole I consider the old Hawaiian lomilomi far pleas- 

 anter than the massage that one gets from the most approved operators in the best 

 baths in Cairo. At times one might wish to exercise his back, and without assistance 

 at hand, the laau lomilomi shown in Fig. 105 were most useful, and were found in every 

 house in the olden time. In a grass house where there are no door posts, they were 

 certainly a great addition to the comfort of the hiiinan inhabitant. In the Bishop 

 Museum these sticks are placed in the medical alcove, where they belong, but they 

 always seem a necessary part of the furnishing of a hale pili. The round stone rubbers 

 shown in the same illustration, were of cellular lava, and in the ablutions took the 

 place of the then unknown soap. It was sometimes well to use them after a lomilomi. 



The specimens of laau lomilomi kua in this Museum are as follows: 



1 163 Of kou wood, large. 



1 164 



1 165 



1 166 Of kauila wood; from Kali hi, 

 Oahu. 



1 167 From Honaunau, Hawaii. 



1 168 Of nenelaau wood, Kailua, Hawaii. 



1 169 Kona, Hawaii. 



1 1 70 Kona, Hawaii. 



1 171 Kona, Hawaii. 



1172 Kona, Hawaii. 



1 173 Kona, Hawaii. 



1 174 Of ulei wood; N. Kona, Hawaii. 



1 1 75 Of nenelaau wood; Kailua, Hawaii. 

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If my native house had at this time human inhabitants, ni}- reader might justly 

 say that I had put them to bed not only without their supper, but without a light ! 

 While the chapter on Food might be appealed to for the supper, it would be unfair to 

 leave out the light for while the old Hawaiians often went to bed with the chickens, 

 they did not like the dark more than other Polynesians, indeed than children of any 

 race. In the cooler parts of the country the fireplace was fed with slow-burning fuel 

 for a dim glow, for which the manianc (Sop/iora chrysopliylld)^ a tree common on the 

 uplands, was most fit. Torches {/innakii) were made by stringing the meats of roasted 

 kukuinuts {Alairites inohicrana) on the midrib of a coconut leaflet and binding a 



"On camping excursions I have often apiilieil this massage to the relief of my companions, and Judge Sanford 

 B. Dole, president of the trustees of this Museum, is very skilful in this Hawaiian art. 



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