Liners for Marking Kapa. 



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The other Polynesians who did not use carved beaters, so far as known to me, had to 

 depend on the tenuity of the fabric for desired flexibility. 



We haye considered the plain kapa varied b}- only the cryptic markings of the 

 beater thus far, and while I shall leave the matter of ornamentation as practised b)- 

 the old Hawaiians to a later page, we must here continue our review of the armamen- 

 tarium of these primitive websters. Doubtless the first decorative marks were made 



FIG. 52. KAPA MARKED WITH SINGLE LIXES. COOK COLL. 



with natural objects, as the rings of the pattern stamped with the end of a bambu 

 (Fig. 7, p. 20), or with leaves or other natural objects shown in many illustrations of 

 this book, but I do not quite consider these in the class of tools which are the work of 

 man's hand, and of these last liners were probabl}- ver\- earl}- used. At first a pointed 

 stick dipped in the paint or d\-e would serve the purpose, and some of the illustrations 

 will seem to some of ni}- readers as marked with this rude tool, but soon a handier 

 tool was required, with increasing skill and improving skill, and the well-made liners 

 Nos. 1265 and 1266 of P'ig. 46 were good pens for this work. Man}' of the patterns, 

 beautiful in their simplicit}', shown in our illustrations were made with such tools, 

 and, as m}- readers can judge, well made. 



