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Ka Han a Kapa. 



know or did not care to mention, and I have not been able to supply the deficiency 

 by enqniries of the few old natives who might have heard of the process. 



Malo's account of kapa-making is here given with the Hawaiian text and a free 

 translation, omitting manv of the repetitions of the Hawaiian, bnt holding strictly 

 to the meaning of the original. The original text of Malo's work has never been 

 published (beyond extracts), and it exists in several manuscript copies, and the one 

 here quoted is from a transcription'' I made more than fort}- ^-ears ago from the cop}- 

 in possession of the Hawaiian Government (which has been lost for some years) 

 collated with a copy in the library of this Museum. Four copies have been examined, 

 and there is considerable variation in the text, though little that affects the meaning. 



MOKUNA XVI. 



1. O ke kapa ko Hawaii nei mea aahu, he 

 ili noia no kekahi mau laau, lie waoke, he nia- 

 maki, he maaloa, he poulu ; o ka waoke ka 

 laau kauu niiiia ; o ka ili o ua waoke la ke ha- 

 naia i kapa peuei, na ke kaue e kua ka waoke, 

 a na ka wahine e uhole a pan ka ili a hoopulu 

 a pulu. 



2. Alalia kuku ma ke kua ine ka ie, a 

 palahalaha i na la eha palia nui aku paha, a 

 kaulai a nialoo, alalia lole ia i kapa, kekahi ke 

 palahalaha loa nae, ai pa'u no ka wahine keka- 

 hi, o ka mea ololi iho lilo ia i malo no ke kane. 



3. O ka mamaki kahi laau hanaia i kapa, 

 a i malo, i pa'u he laau ulu wale uo ma ka 

 nahelehele, e kii wale no ka wahine e uhole i 

 ka ili oia laau, a lawe mai a kalua i ka imu me 

 ka palaa, oia ke kapa ulaula, ina i kalua pu ole 

 me ka palaa oia ke kapa kelewai. 



4. E hoopulu no e like me ka waoke a 

 pulu alalia, kuku ma ke kua me ka ie, a pala- 

 halaha ma na la ekolu paha, eha paha, a kau- 

 lai a maloo a lilo i kapa kekahi, a i malo, a i 

 pau, he kapa paa ka mamaki, he liuliu ka 

 aahu ana. 



5. O ka maaloa a me ka poulu, he mau 

 laau kukuia laua i kapa, ua like uo nae me ko 

 ka waoke : a me ko ka mamaki : ke kuku ana, 

 a me ka haua ana. Ua nui nae ke ano o na 

 kapa, me ka pa'u, a me ka malo, a ua ka wa- 

 hine no a hoolilo i ke kapa i ka malo i ka pa'u 

 i mau ano e ma ka hooluu ana, i eleele, ulaula 

 maomao, lenalena pela ia no. 



CHAPTER XVI. 



1. Kapa was the clothing in this Hawaii; 

 it was made from the bark of certain trees [or 

 shrubs] waoke, mamaki, maaloa and poulu. 

 The waoke was much cultivated : the v.'aoke 

 bark was made into kapa in this way. The 

 men got the sticks but the women peeled off the 

 bark and soaked it until soft. 



2. It was then beaten on the kua with the 

 ie. This took four days, perhaps more, then it 

 was hung up to dry. Then the cloth if wide 

 was kapa or pa'u for women, if long and nar- 

 row, a malo for men. 



3. The mamaki also was made into kapa, 

 pa'u and malo. It grew wild in the woods and 

 the women peeled off the bark and took it to 

 the oven. \^'ith dark kapa palaa, red kapa was 

 made, if baked without the palaa it was the 

 brown kapa, kelewai. 



4. This was soaked till soft like the waoke, 

 then beaten on the kua with the ie, till it was 

 spread out thin; three days perhaps, four per- 

 haps was this work, and it was hung out to dry ; 

 then it was kapa, pa'u or malo. This mamaki 

 was a strong cloth and durable to wear. 



5. The maaloa and poulu were beaten into 

 kapa like the waoke and mamaki ; the beating 

 was the same so was the work. Great was the 

 variety in form and kinds of kapa, the pa'u and 

 the malo, and the women greatly increased the 

 variety by coloring the malo or the pa'u either 

 black, red, green, yellow, etc. 



^'This I made on a Remington typewriter of the earliest pattern printing capital letters only. 



