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TJie Anaeni Hawaiian House. 



delicate substance. Today in the time spent in mending these vessels of comparatively 

 little value, one could earn enough to buy a dozen new ones. Not so in ancient days, 

 for time was abundant and most of the ancient vessels both of gourd and of wood were 



more or less patched: 

 as we go on we shall 

 see man}' of these. 



Of the Curcubita 

 were made a great va- 

 riet}' of things useful 

 about a house as well 

 as the large bowls. 

 First were the covers 

 for these bowls which 

 also served as dishes 

 when the bowls were 

 uncovered, and the 

 gourd covers were com- 

 mon ly used on the 

 later bowls of wood. 

 Long, narrow slices of 

 these gourds made con- 

 venient platters, and 



FIG. 117. GOURD BOX. ^ ' 



fragments of broken ones were 

 used for man}- purposes. 



Gourd Boxes. — The thicker 

 gourds were fashioned in such 

 a way as to be tolerably tight 

 so they could be used to store 

 feather work or choice kapas. 

 Such a box is shown in Fig. 117. 

 This is 63 inches in circumfer- 

 ence and 16 inches high, and it 

 will be noticed that the cover fig. 118. long gourd boxes. 



is cut from the shell with two projec^lions or wings, and this can be kept in place by 

 cords passing through the drilled holes, two on each side. Such boxes were used for 

 storage rather than traveling, in which the thinner gourds, illustrated in Fig. 114, were 



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