. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. f~;-:>c It seems i)erfec!^l\- just to point te this t:\-|)e us llic earliest fuiiii oi , nllli()ti«4^li made at the [)reseiit (la_v, iio ancient speeiiiieii existiiiii,^ at least frijiii llu- rfginn we ;ii\' etniside-riti_i4'. 'The peiisliaide na- ture i)f llie iiialeri;il: tlic roui^ii- iiess (A the \vorlr lo illiistrale the life history of tlie iiaii\'es, hut siniplv as 'Nairios'', iraiLti-rs of u(l(lil\^ ta" riire woti;- iee. :,. |.\).M !:\vk!:t i-mrw i-oxu'


. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. f~;-:>c It seems i)erfec!^l\- just to point te this t:\-|)e us llic earliest fuiiii oi , nllli()ti«4^li made at the [)reseiit (la_v, iio ancient speeiiiieii existiiiii,^ at least frijiii llu- rfginn we ;ii\' etniside-riti_i4'. 'The peiisliaide na- ture i)f llie iiialeri;il: tlic roui^ii- iiess (A the \vorlr lo illiistrale the life history of tlie iiaii\'es, hut siniplv as 'Nairios'', iraiLti-rs of u(l(lil\^ ta" riire woti;- iee. :,. |.\).M !:\vk!:t i-mrw i-oxu'i-,. iuaushi|i. The series i-aiiiiot hi' wcirked out from exeliisi\'el\- llau^aiiaii material beeaiise the meo palm, here near its tro|)ieal liiiiit, does m>t .yi'ou' irindi- nor de\x'1op Inxnriaiil leaaxss: the paiidaiiiis w^as here the nujre ini])nrt- aiil Inn; for the purposes of Iniskelr}- as well as for mats, and Lhe tasliiun eif the hasket and mat holh pai'took of the peeiiliarities of niateriak We mnst turn then to the central kaeiJie for onr illiistra,!ions. Lookini^^ ai^-ajn at Fkite 1, next lo the rude eocnniit fi'ail, Xo. 5631, is a far finer l>a^skel, wdiieli at first glaiK;e seems to hax'e little eonnecRion ri<e s^ r<..-<-. n w i:\-;kis mi. ., ^ with its liitnd)le nei,i4dd)or, hut the eiin'oiis form Xo. S;,..:', hk. of thi- , ,^ ^ - . • ^ , -v. - . ^ -. Soioninii ernni), neu- pnn^e XVxX.^<^-^- the spin inidiib 1510. lt»ni(, with ele\s;ii leaflets eaidi half, and tJiese ari- neat I \- :ind elosel\' phiited, v\ 7. c:.<'siei;h ..I-' n\sKh^T iP^. p_.;j^-es o\i'rriinninit at the edges aiirl hronodit l)a,ek (o the ndth-iks wiiere the\' are split and a. portion hr^ai^li'd into sk<irL loops for handles, the rest l"inel_v shredded lor an inanimenlal fringes Does. I w^^ • Ix w" #"^ ^^m %M % ''%*Sii»W^ ^ -,:• e^v -^; . ;::y/h(W/ .. Please note that these images are ext


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