Vocabulary of Kapa Terms. 227 



Ferafera to remove wrinkles from cloth. 



Haa cloth-making by the women. 



Haamati to dye crimson with the fuati juice. 



Haapaa a dark-colored ahu ; v. to dye this color. 



Haapaau to make or wear the coarse cloth caW&A paau. 



Haapaopao to d3-e cloth brown or of a dark color. 



Hapaa a strong, durable cloth. 



Haro to paint or spread the crimson dye on cloth called ahuharo. 



Hiri a strong native'cloth ; the bark used to dye this cloth. 



Hopuu name of a fine white cloth. 



Itere the fag end of a piece of ahu. 



Mao a tree whose bark is used as a dye ; in Hawaiian this is the name of Abutilon 



tncanum (Fig. 86, p. 143). 

 Maraea araea red ochre; in Hawaiian alaea. 

 Maraia a dark colored ahu. 



Maro a man's dress; maroapi, a quilted maro; maroapu, a wide girdle. 

 Mati the crimson dye from fig juice; also the berry. 

 MotUU a mountain shrub with a dark red berry used as a dye. 

 Muriaito red paint or dye from the ai'to tree. 

 Ninamu brown or gray cloth. 



Oao the red-berried shrub used in dyeing {Mats). 

 Ohina a grayish cloth. 

 Oieie ahu partly made and thick. 

 Opapa a kind of spotted cloth. 



Oraa, Aoa Banian fig; also the cloth made from it. 

 Ore a modern name for the Aoa tree. 

 Paau a coarse native cloth. 

 Pahoa to prepare the bark for making ahu. 

 Paoo bark of the au/e in preparation for making ahu. 

 Paraoro to take the wrinkles out of cloth. 

 Pareu folds of ahu worn around the loins of both sexes. 

 Parupape a fine ahu. 

 Parure a strong ahu. 

 Pateatea a kind of ahu. 

 PatU a small wooden mallet. 

 Pauma a kite made of ahu. 

 Patiraura a kind of ahu. 

 Pauteute a kind of ahu. 

 Peperu a roll or bundle of ahu. 



Pia Tacca pinna fi/ida, the plant whose starch was used to cement ahu. 

 Puotihi the inside sheet of a ^//n'; usually of inferior ahu. 

 Puveuveu a rag of ahu. 



