Eastern Pacific lands ; Tahiti and the Marquesas islands . tterns of black and white, by Upeti, or Tahitians dyed and stained their cloth in pretty designsby hand alone, obtaining a splendid crimson dye from theyellowish berries of. a tree called the Mati. For ordinary work on the plantations, or out fishing in thelagoons, the Tahitians, Rarotongans and Marquesans alikewore a narrow waist band, or T-cloth of the Indian fig-treeor paper-mulberry bark, or else a more primitive coveringstill, of the long leaves of the Dracaena, strung so as to makea rough kilt. This they call Maro or M
Eastern Pacific lands ; Tahiti and the Marquesas islands . tterns of black and white, by Upeti, or Tahitians dyed and stained their cloth in pretty designsby hand alone, obtaining a splendid crimson dye from theyellowish berries of. a tree called the Mati. For ordinary work on the plantations, or out fishing in thelagoons, the Tahitians, Rarotongans and Marquesans alikewore a narrow waist band, or T-cloth of the Indian fig-treeor paper-mulberry bark, or else a more primitive coveringstill, of the long leaves of the Dracaena, strung so as to makea rough kilt. This they call Maro or Mao. The Paumotan islanders, living on sun-scorched atolls,where the banyan and paper-mulberry were hardly everseen, had to fall back on that good kind tree, the coconutpalm, and like the Caroline islanders in the north, makeshift with primitive kilts and plaited overalls made of theoven-baked and shell-slit filaments of the coconut palm was universally the case in the remoter islets. Nowand then, of course, Tahitian double canoes would run down. CHARACTERISTIC MARQUESAN PATTERN IN CARVING. Appendix A 199 to places like Hao, Anaa or Makatea, and bring quantities ofnative cloth for barter. But as the enormous wealth of theLow Archipelago in pearl-shell became better and betterknown, more and more trading schooners, under half-casteor European captains, came down from Tahiti into thesedangerous labyrinths, this maze of imperfectly charted coralreefs and rings, scattered over hundreds of leagues of ocean,bringing increasing cargoes of trade goods of every Paumotan islander, from Makatea to Mangareva, nowhas developed new tastes. The rarely-obtained luxuries ofhis forefathers have become his necessities. Sea-chests,coarse blue sailors shirts and trousers, hammers and chisels,nails and long knives, ail are well within his reach. And heworks on at his pearl fisheries, well content, not alwaysvery eager to pay his debts, but in the main a thriving, hard-working, sobe
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