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Ka Ha I! a Kapa. 



pulp thus prepared, and in a ver}' liquid state, is poured over wire frames, mucli as in 

 England, and dried." '' 



Here we have paper-making pure and simple, a paper of which I have samples, 

 and they are in no wise better than some made b}- the Hawaiians a hundred years ago. 

 In both cases the material and the preliminar}- pulping process were alike, but with the 

 Hawaiian the pulp was less watery and beaten into its thin and even texture by a skill 

 not required in pouring pulp on the wires and leaving it to dr^- to the desired consistenc}-. 



From the New Hebrides many specimens are found in museums, but they are 

 generally small and often decorated with lined and geometric patterns in black or 



Fij;. 23. TAPA BEATERS FROM BRITISH NEW GUINEA, BRITISH MUSEUM. EDGE-PARTINGTON. 



dark brown on a buff ground. Fig. 21. In this Museum is a piece of tapa attributed 

 to the New Hebrides, and collected some j-ears ago, of a rough texture and stained 

 with a blue similar to that of the Solomon Islands, over which are drawn with a bright 

 red outline three forms many times repeated (Fig. 24), of which I do not understand 

 the full significance, except the first which seems to represent the dugong; the second 

 appears in manj- modifications. The piece measures 32X60 in. ( B. P. B. M., 6982.) 

 North of the New Hebrides is the Sauta Cruz group, the inhabitants belonging 

 to the same race and having similar looms on which fine mats are woven. The bark- 

 cloth is similar in structure and the decoration of which these people are capable is 

 seen on PI. 33, from a specimen in the U. S. National Museum from the Wilkes 

 Expedition. Portions of the design are quite like some of the Hawaiian. 



•'Rutherford Alcock, Journ. Roy. Geog. Soc, xxxi, 347. 



