Kapa for Feet and Head. 



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malo as well. I do not remember ever to have seen it worn. It was usually passed 

 under one arm and knotted over the opposite shoulder. 



Temporary sandals used in crossing old flows of rough lava were sometimes 

 constructed of braided kapa, but more commonly of hau bark, draccena leaves, or any 

 suitable material at hand. Plain bands of white kapa were sometimes worn about 

 the arms or legs for ornament, and when the prized feather fillet was not at command, 

 a strip of orange colored kapa made a not unbecoming band for the luxuriant growth 

 of hair. Another use that has never been superseded was for long white pendants 



Fig. 118. GROUP OF HAWAIIANS ON MOI,OKAI. STOKES. 



from the lower rim of the helmet of calabash figured by Cook as part of the armor of 

 the rowers in the King's war canoe at the time of his visit. The frail helmets, strong 

 enough to protect the heads from the sling-stones, then the only range projectile, 

 passed away before the frailer kapa had ceased to be, and only the picture of the 

 helmet that Cook gives us remains. 



I have spoken in a previous page of the head dress of the Fijian. The 

 Hawaiian did not ordinarily wear anything on head, except the thick crop of coarse 

 hair, which in the case of a chief was sometimes trimmed into a mahiole or crest, a sort 

 of mane. The Fijian, on the other hand, put a very large turban of white 7nasi about 

 his abundant hair in a fashion at once graceful and imposing. The portrait of Tanoa, 



