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Tou a tree, Cordia subcordaia\ to prepare siapo with tou. 



Tuapipi the second growth of paper-mulberry. 



Tusi to mark or print siapo. 



TusitUSi striped siapo. 



Tutu to beat tutnga, Hawaiian kiiku. 



Tutua the wooden block on which tutuga is beaten. 



Tutuga Broiissonetia papyrifera., the paper-mulberry ; the prepared bark of the same. 



According to W. von Biilow, the term applies to bark of Pipturus incanns. Arch. 



intern. d'Ethnog. xii, 67. 

 TutUtUtU marked with speckles. 



Ua (tough, tenacious) syn. of tutuga; the bark scraped for making siapo. 

 Uaulu bark of j^oung bread-fruit. 

 Ululima a siapo fifty upeti wide. 

 Uluselau a siapo a hundred upeti wide. 

 UlututUga a bundle of scraped bark of tutuga. 



Upeti form used for printing siapo (Fig. 16); used as a measure for the cloth. 

 Vaisa the preparatory wash (mordant) used to fix a dye. 



Pratt, Rev. George. A Grammar and Dictionary of the Samoan Language. Second Edition edited by Rev. 

 S. J. Whitmee. London, 1878. 



Violette, Le P. L. Dictionnaire Samoan-Francais-Anglais et Francais-Samoan-Anglais. Paris, 1880. 



VOCABUI.ARY OF TONGA KAPA T^RMS. 



;^ga Curacma hnga^ turmeric, the Samoan lega. 



Palo to smooth out wrinkled gatu. 



Fau Hibiscus tiliaceiis, the Hawaiian hau (Fig. 82, p. 134). 



Fukai tuitui soot of tuitui nuts used as coloring matter. 



Gatu cloth made of hiapo. 



Hea tree whose juice furnishes a varnish for gatu. 



Hiapo fibrous bark of paper-mulberry ; Samoan siapo ; cloth of a brown color. 



Holo old gatu ; cloth soft from use. 



Ike a beater; the Hawaiian ie. 



Kalalu the rustling of gatu. 



Kapa i gatu the border of a sheet of gatu. 



Kie fau cloth made from fan bark as at Futuna and elsewhere. 



Kili bark in general; Hawaiian ili. 



Kofe bambu, the Hawaiian ohe. 



Koka Ficus prolixa ; the bark yields a brown-red varnish for gatu. Koka aga to 



paint gatu. 

 Kumi black gatu. 

 I/ena bark of hiapo; in Hawaiian the word means yellow or turmeric. 



