VOCABUI/ARY OF FIJIAN KAPA TBRMS. 



Bicibici a marking or pattern on native cloth. 



Buco white used chiefly of masi ; masi buco. 



Dutua the plank on which malo is beaten ; Tongan tutua. 



Gatu native cloth when made in large or wide pieces. 



Iki the beater for masi ; Hawaiian ie. 



Katudrau (loo fathoms) a large bale of malo; sometimes contains many hundred 



fathoms. 

 Kesa a sort of dye for marking malo; applied to any color. 

 Kupeti a carved plank on which malo is printed ; Samoan upete. 

 l/auci Aleurites. 



I/iktl female dress ; when of malo like the Hawaiian pa'u. 

 I/iti charcoal of kukui nuts used for printing malo. 

 I/Oaloa black made from lauci seed. 

 Madra cloth that has been used. 

 Malo the paper-mulberry; also the dress (malo) made from it. In most parts of 



Fiji the cloth is called masi. 

 Masi cloth beaten from paper-mulberry. 

 Nionioro marked in a certain way ; see Hawaiian onionio. 

 Samu mallet for beating masi. 

 Samusamu a beating of masi. 



Sasa the round board on which masi is kesaed or stained. 

 Seavu white native cloth ; same as masi buco. 



Sulu a waist cloth ; differs from the Hawaiian malo in not passing between the legs. 

 Taloa masi stained black. 



Tasina native cloth marked or printed on the kupeti. 

 Tidolo malo or van sticks stripped of their bark. 



Tiniyura a bui ni malo, a tail of malo, the long train of a chief's dress. 

 Togonilau a kind of marking when dyeing with kesa. 

 Tou Cordia sp. 



Tusi native cloth kesaed with various colors and patterns. 

 Tuvalou a quantity of masi hung about a person at a solevu or festival. 

 Vaqaqa inner bark of a tree when prepared for making cloth. 

 Waqani a pattern for printing masi. 



Hazlewood, Rev. D. A Feejeean and English Dictionary. Vewa, Feejee, 1850. 



VOCABUI.ARY OF TAHITIAN AHU TERMS. 



Aaa native cloth not well made. 

 Aahu a piece of cloth ; cloth in general. 



Aaone large bundles of ahu, coarse or unfinished, prepared for a public presentation 

 to the king or high chief. 



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