Foreip^n Cloth Used. 



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saturated with coconut or kamani oil for water-proofing and strengthening. When 

 cotton cloth displaced the kapa very odd patterns were in demand; orange or red 

 stripes, black zigzags on yellow, etc., all giving a bizarre but gay appearance to the 

 Saturday afternoon riders on the plain then extending from the Kawaihao church to 



FIG. 115. TANOA, KING OF BAU. WILKES. 



Punahou, unmarked b}^ fence or tree, and onl}' broken by the Makiki gulch ; this was 

 fifty years ago. Cotton cloth was, however, printed in native patterns to please the 

 more conservative, and two of these are in the Bishop Museum (Nos. 2323, 2324), 

 black figures on 3^ellow which has proved more durable than the native olena. 



MEMOiRa B. P. B. Museum. Vol. III.— 13. 



