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243. Very light brown tindyed kapa from the NGarasi District, Rubiana, Solomon Ids. 

 H. B. M. S. Penguin, 1S94. Given by H. Balfour, Esq. 



244. One of the thick, poorly beaten kapa from Bogotu, Ysabal, Solomon Ids. The 

 light brown is smeared with the blue so favorite a color on this group, and the 

 decoration is one of the three-balled dumb-bells already referred to in the text 

 (p. 62); this is in deeper blue with a bordering line of red ochre; the drawing is 

 poor, but the beating of the fibre is even poorer. 



245. Dark blue (BB, 7) kapa from Bili village, Eastern Rubiana, Solomon Ids. 

 H. B. M. S. Penguin. Given by H. Balfour, Esq. 



246. Dark blue lined kapa, the lining straight with loops, from NGarasi District, 

 north coast of Rubiana, Solomon Ids. H. B. M. S. Penguin, 1894. Given by 

 H. Balfour, Esq. To this specimen is appended this note: "juice of plant mixed 

 with lime and water; sometimes chewed and spat upon the cloth and shaped into 

 patterns with the finger." I have endeavored, so far without success, to learn 

 the name of this plant of which the coloring matter is very bright and durable. 



247. Thin, uneven kapa, unbleached and spotted with black; the color red is some- 

 what lighter than AA, ir, and the texture is open. Brought from Rubiana by 

 the Penguin and given by H. Balfour, Esq. 



248. Unbleached red-brown kapa from Rubiana, " qiiality C fine." Penguin colledlion. 

 Given by H. Balfour, Esq. 



249. Another of the Rubiana kapa, "quality A coarse," from the same source. 



250. A light brown kapa (nearly AA, 9) from Eake Mwero, British Central Africa, 

 1893. Given by H. Balfour, Esq. 



251. A fairly well-beaten, heavy, unbleached kapa made on Great Nicobar, of Celtis 

 fibre, colledled by F. E. Tuson in 1889. Given by H. Balfour, Esq. 



252. A heavier specimen of the Celtis kapa from Great Nicobar, collected by Major 

 R. C. Temple, 1895. Given by H. Balfour, Esq. 



253. Waoke, mole kapa from Fiji. The cloth is very soft and silk}^, well bleached 

 and stamped and ruled in neat designs of black and red. Portion of a sula given 

 by the Peabody Academy of Science (E. 3178), Salem, Mass. 



254. Siapo from Samoan Ids. The base is well-beaten waoke, mole as all cloth from 

 this group, ruled with wonderful care and skill in fine lines of black and red, 

 some of the small squares painted in with black, and the back of the sheet 

 varnished with the common red-brown (PI. 34, i). Given by the late Gorham 

 D. Gilman of Boston. 



255. A white, poorly beaten kapa from Rapanui (Easter Island), collected by Paj^- 

 master W. J. Thomson, U. S. N. Given by U. S. National Museum. 



256. A thin, oiled waoke kapa of mole beat and once part of a pa'u. The pattern is 

 ruled in black. Hawaiian. Given by U. S. N. M. 



257. A portion of an old pa'u from Hawaii, ruled and stamped in red and black. 

 Originally olena yellow. From the U. S. N. M. (3605). 



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