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43. Hawaii. A rather poor specimen of kapa, stiff and leathery, decorated with the 

 common converging red and black bands; here each band is lightened by cross 

 lines in zigzag. 



44. Tahiti. A white, silky, soft, but poorly beaten kapa. 



45. Tahiti. A thick corduroy, yellowish (faded) kapa covered with a network of red 



lines 2/g inch wide. 



46. Tonga ? Pi. kapa thin and silky, with bands of red enclosed by black lines. 



Much like PI. E, i, but omitting the intermediate line. A bright and pleasing 

 design for a pa'u. 



47. Hawaii. A thin, well-beaten mole kapa ornamented with the favorite "colon" 



stamp in green and red (PI. 41, 2). 



48. Hawaii. An odd specimen of marbled appearance, perhaps composed of old kapa 

 rags rebeaten ; it is tough and papery and seems to be quite like No. 103 which 

 is marked Sandwich Islands. 



49. Hawaii ? Plain white hoopai kapa rather thin but not kalukalu. 



50. Tongan ? Kapa of a medium thickness and rather soft; beat pepehi with a 



double transverse beating. A dead red band occupies more than half of the 

 specimen. Perhaps a malo. 



51. Hawaii. A thin mole kapa with more than fifty closely ruled lines, then a broad 



red band and repeat. 



52. Tonga? A thick and tough kapa of pepehi beat and decorated in an almost 



barbaric style, which is hard to describe or even understand, but so far as the 

 limited size of the specimen shows the pattern it is made up of bands of zigzags, 

 the principal one 2.5 inches wide having a succession of knees in red black and 

 yellow-brown, the ground color; when this last shows the strip is covered with 

 red lines ladder-wise; another band is a jumble of black zigzags with transverse 

 red lines crossing them without rhyme or reason. 



53. Tahiti. A thin kapa of a gray color marked with two series of parallel lines 



.2 inch apart, crossing each other at an angle of 45°. At intervals a reddish band 

 of three lines runs parallel to one series. 



54. Tahiti. A thin, yellow-red kapa of mole beat. 



55. Hawaii. A thin kapa of pepehi lialua beat, with darker red fibres interspersed in 

 line resembling Chinese writing. Exactly- how these fibres are kept in line I do 

 not understand, but they certainly antedate the supposed American device for 

 checking counterfeiters of the bank-bills. 



56. Hawaii. Another similar piece but of hoopai beat, and a single line of darker fibres. 



57. Hawaii. A thick, mole kapa with two black lines and a single red one at inter- 

 vals of six inches with three rows of stamps apparently bearing no relation to 

 the lines except direAion, the stamps alternating two short red lines and two 

 small green quares touching by corners. 



58. Hawaii. A thick, woolly, mole kapa, marked with bands consisting of five red 

 lines bounded generally (not always) by much broader lines of the same color, 



