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piece of cloth reaching to the neck and flioulders, and covering the 



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in order to make this cap, and on its top they place a thick gar- 



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land of gloiTy dark green pigeons feathers, to which fometimes red 

 or yellow feathers are: joined in fmall bunches, mlde of coco-nut 



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filaments, the whole is ejicompaffed by a kind of rope, formed of 

 two kinds of Taheitee cloth, and other firings, tied together by 

 the bark of various kinds of convulvuli, died black and red ; this 



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is called Moyho, The next piece confifls of fevcral parts, the iirfl oB 

 which is mms.^ pa-tha to which they faflen the pa-rae, or frontlet;- 

 the pa-ooto, or mafk before the mouth; and laftly, the /^i?i?^i^ 



or flomacher, which form the mofl curious part of the whole drefs, 



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The pa-teea is a large fhell, of the oyfler kind ; they polifh away 



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only a brown coating, which g 



much the appearance of turtle-fliell j this fliell is perforated on its 

 margin by many fmall holes, which ferve to faflen to it a border 



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of fhining dark green pigeons feathers, fixed on a plaited lifl of 

 coco-nut filaments, and into this margin they fix a great quantity 

 of tail-feathers from the tropic bird in a diverging manner, fo as 



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to appear like the rays of a luminous body : the pa-rae is com- 

 monly joined to the pa-teea by f1:rings ; this is again a fliell of the 

 fame kind as the former, and has a vtry narrow hole, througl^ 



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w}iich the perfon looks who wears the mafic : below this i^t 



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