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The Ancient Hawaiian House. 



To stop the mouth of a water bottle the Hawaiians used a Terebra shell, a small 

 cachelot tooth, or a neatly folded palm or pandanus leaf fragment. To the present 

 day these gourd bottles are in demand, although hard to find, for carrying water 

 while on a mountain tramp, for they are light and keep the water cooler than the 

 ordinary tin canteen. 



FIG. 1 20. GOURD W.\Tp;R BOTTLES FOR CANOES. 



Funnels. — The necks of the huewai are often so long and slender that one 

 perforce admires the patience exercised in originally emptying the govird through so 

 long and restricted a passage: especially when it is remembered that after rotting the 

 pulp and farther disintegrating the softer portions of the shell by shaking in it the 

 small pebbles that took the place filled by shot in washing glass bottles, the whole re- 

 sulting mass of pulp, pebbles and seeds had to pass out of an aperture often less than 

 three-eighths of an inch in diameter. To fill such a bottle with water required a 

 funnel, and the gourd furnished these of two general forms as shown in Fig. 122. 

 One (1231) was a segment of a bottle, a little less than half, the lower part of the 



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