Kapa Kites. 



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and the manu of the Maori were both often, if not generally covered with kapa much 

 in the way an American boy would use paper for the same purpose. 



In fastening the stone adze {koi) to the handle (a/^), a fold or two of kapa was 

 interposed between stone and wood before binding together with sinnet ; when kapa 

 could not be obtained hala leaves were substituted, but kapa was preferred. 



Fig. 120. HAWAIIAN Sire sticks. 



The white, unstained kapa was used to bandage wounds, and was scraped into lint 

 for stanching blood, precisely as we should use cotton or linen cloth at the present day. 

 A peculiar strip of bandage was used b}' the kaliuna lapaaii (medicine man) as a com- 

 pressor to aid delivery in childbirth. In general kapa in its various forms and qualities 

 supplied the place of both cloth and paper in the economy of the primitive Hawaiians. 

 As an article of property kapa played an important role, and was folded into 

 bundles and stored away for barter or presents. Cook describes in many places the 

 way in which choice kapa was given to him both on Hawaii and in Tahiti ; in the 

 former place it was often wound around his body, but in the southern islands the 



