Old time Hawaiians and their work . Makaloa Mat sedge grew in marshy places on Niihau and Kauai. Themats had to be woven of young sedge. The stem wasstraw-colored, with its lower portion red. Other colorswere made with vegetable dyes. Captain Cook saw the following varieties: a white matwith red stripes and figures interwoven on one side; 52 OLD-TIME HAWAllANS AND THEIR WORK. Hawaiian Girls weaving Mat under Hala Tree a mat of pale green spotted with squares of red; a straw-colored one spotted with green; and one made of beauti-ful stripes of red and brown. All the chants and legends about wea
Old time Hawaiians and their work . Makaloa Mat sedge grew in marshy places on Niihau and Kauai. Themats had to be woven of young sedge. The stem wasstraw-colored, with its lower portion red. Other colorswere made with vegetable dyes. Captain Cook saw the following varieties: a white matwith red stripes and figures interwoven on one side; 52 OLD-TIME HAWAllANS AND THEIR WORK. Hawaiian Girls weaving Mat under Hala Tree a mat of pale green spotted with squares of red; a straw-colored one spotted with green; and one made of beauti-ful stripes of red and brown. All the chants and legends about weaving have beenlost, so that we do not know what god was the patrondeity of weavers. REVIEW How did people begin to make baskets ? Describe the baskets madeof the ie-ie root; the coconut-leaf baskets; the lauhala baskets. Whichdo you consider the most beautiful, and why ? How were gourds and calabashes sometimes carried ? BASKETS AND MATS 53 Find something in nature that can be used as a basket. If you havea small calabash, tie or crochet a small koko that will hold it so that youcan hang it up. How were the lauhala mats made ? What was the makaloa mat ?How was it colored ? How did the designs differ ? Why do we know ofno god of weavers ? What makes you think that there must have been one ? Weave a mat. Select dry leaves from the hala tree, cut off the endsand edges, a
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