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Tlie Ancient Hawaiian House. 



The huewai shown in Fig. 124 are modern, and the maker does not seem to have 

 attained the fnll black dj-e of the older artisans. These ipu pawehe are rare in musenms, 

 and this Musenm is fortunate in possessing a very full series of these decorated gourds, 

 which were mostly the property of the alii. The black of the olden time seems durable, 

 but the orange of the gourd is blackened in the tropical sun and also by the oil which 

 was sure to get on them from the oiled hair and bodies of the natives. Plate XXXVI 

 shows some of the best of the umeke pawehe, and also some of the liuewai. This form 



FIG. 124. HUEWAI P.\WEHE. 



of decoration is found also on the hula drums (Fig. 119, used for beating time to the 

 dance) which were made of large specimens of Curcubita, and the resemblance to 

 tatuing is close; the figures on the huewai in Fig. 124 are quite like the tatu patterns 

 formerh^ impressed on Hawaiian limbs. 



The uses of gourds were too extensive to describe full}' in a treatise on house 

 furniture, but it maj' be mentioned that a form was used as an injedlion syringe 

 (Fig. 125, a); the neck of a broken bottle was used as a reel for a fish-line (b); 

 another portion in shape of a funnel was the principal imj^lement in a game of toss (c); 

 small gourds were filled with pebbles (d) and used as rattles {itliiili hula) or in the 

 dance as castanets, and finally the fragments were used as Job used the potsherds 



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