CHAPTER VI. 



VOCABUI^ARY OF HAWAIIAN KAPA TERMS. 



I have decided to print separately the lists of Kapa terms in the principal 

 Polynesian dialects, but will supplement these by a comparative table of the various 

 names for the principal implements and materials. The list of dictionaries and other 

 authorities quoted will be found below. Few of the Polynesian dictionaries, or rather 

 vocabvilaries, furnished many technical terms. 



Aahu a kind of kapa; waoke bark soaked in water; to put on kapa, to cloth one. 



Aeokahaloa kapa made of waoke and colored with charcoal a blue gray (PI. BB, 8). 



Aha name of a kind of kapa made on Molokai. 



Ahiahi faded colors; the uncolored portions of dyed kapa. 



Ahunalii a colored kapa. 



Akala Hawaiian raspberry (Fig. 83, p. 136); pink kapa made from it or colored 



like the berry juice. 

 Akeakea term applied to faded kapa. 

 Akoa snuff-colored kapa dyed with akoa (PI. AA, 8). 

 Alaalawainui a small tree whose fruit is used in dyeing. 

 Alaea red ochre used as paint when mixed with kukui or kamani nut oil. 

 Aleuleu old kapa; all kinds of poor kapa; same as Apeupeu. 

 Alolua kapa printed or painted on both sides. 

 Amaumau a fern {Sadlen'a cyatheoides) used as sizing or also as a reddish dye 



(Fig. 96, p. 161). 

 Anoni kapa made by mixing bits of variously colored kapa in the beating (PI. 35, i). 

 Apeupetl inferior kinds of kapa ; see Aleuleu. 

 Apikipiki variegated kapa. 



Awapuhi Zingiber zeru7iibct^ Ginger; used as a perfume (Fig. 100, p. 166). 

 Awelu torn or ragged kapa. 

 Eleuli a perfumed kapa (from Puna?). 

 Haa a plant {Atitidesma platyphyllum) used in dyeing. 

 Hai goddess of the kapa beaters. 

 Haimanawa rather thin white kapa. 

 Halakea kapa dyed with niu (coconut). 



Hale kua or kuku house where the women beat kapa in wet weather. 

 Haltia striped ; a pattern on beaters, two sets of parallel lines crossing at right angles, 



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