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21. Tahiti. A thin white kapa, ruled in black; "not full}- completed." The pattern 

 was like PI. 34, 2. 



22. Hawaiian. Fine thin kapa ruled in black with broader lines in alaea red. 



23. Hawaiian. The fragment (now half its former size) is too small to make out the 

 pattern painted in red and black upon a thick, leathery kapa, ribbed on the 

 reverse. "Wore b}- the priests." The general character is shown in PI. S, i, 

 left half. 



24. Hawaiian. Thin mole mahuna kapa; "wore by the young women and oiled over 

 to resist water." 



25. Hawaiian. Similar in texture to the last but marked with dark red stripes; "an 

 under garment; sometimes used for ornament." 



26. Hawaiian. Thick white (probabl}' once j-ellow or pink) with a texture like 



chamois leather. " Used as ornaments upon their canoes." 



27. Tahiti. White, poorly beaten and fibrous but soft; "used by chiefs for sitting on." 



28. Tahitian. Thin, white, papery with irregular brown blotches. "Used as a sash, 



and under garments for the dancers at Otaheite." 



29. Hawaiian. Kapa mahuna with lines in groups of three. 



30. Hawaiian. A thick felt-like kapa of several layers loosely beaten together; white, 

 slightly smeared with red on one side. "A covering for the common people." 



31. Hawaiian. Soft mole kapa resembling No. 3, but with finer dark lines in threes 

 with wider red parallel lines and four finer red crossing at a slight angle. For the 

 general effect see PI. H, 2. A number of samples of this st3'le were in Cook's 

 colle6lion. 



32. Tahitian. Rather soft, white with a slight red smear on one side. "Wore by 

 the chiefs going to battle." Probably as malo. 



33. Tongatabu. A coarse, loosel}' beaten kapa varnished with red on one side. 



"Wore by the common people; no rain will penetrate it." It closely resembles 

 Samoan siapo. 



34. Tahiti. A thick, coarse, ribbed cloth painted in triangular patterns of orange, 



red, brown, with black dividing lines. So far as the diminutive specimen shows 

 the design, it was gaudy rather than artistic. "Wore as garments by the ladies. 

 ... .A number of the natives being on board of the Resolution, one of the chiefs 

 took a particular liking to an old blunt iron which la}- upon one of the officer's 

 chests, and taking hold of a bo}' about nine years of age, offered him in exchange, 

 pointing to the iron. The gentleman, although he knew he covild not keep the 

 3'outh, yet willing to see if he would willingly stay ; or if au}^ of the rest would 

 claim him, took the child and gave the savage the iron ; upon which a woman, who 

 appeared rather young for the mother, sprung from the other side of the ship, and 

 with the highest emotions of grief seemed to bewail the loss of the infant : but 

 the lieutenant, with a true British spirit, took him by the hand and presented 

 him to her, upon which, after putting her hands twice vipon her head, she un- 

 bound the roll of cloth which was round her body, from which this specimen was 

 cut, and having spread it before him, seized the bo}', and jumping into the sea 



