. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. I ob HiVa'aiiau Ncls and Neili "k>'- oIoik'i, but for tlie koko ii was applicable and used extensively as well a,s for the eordiiigs attached In certain gmird vessels. Coir w(nild l}e prepared, twisted and worked into a koko ill tlie same day. This was no doiilit iiecessar}-, as the fdires, when dry, are vcr\' stilT and would be difficult to twist into the close meshes ol" some of the nettiiig'H in wldeh coir is found. Ahuawa, cinunioii on the bauks of tlie taro p
. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. I ob HiVa'aiiau Ncls and Neili "k>'- oIoik'i, but for tlie koko ii was applicable and used extensively as well a,s for the eordiiigs attached In certain gmird vessels. Coir w(nild l}e prepared, twisted and worked into a koko ill tlie same day. This was no doiilit iiecessar}-, as the fdires, when dry, are vcr\' stilT and would be difficult to twist into the close meshes ol" some of the nettiiig'H in wldeh coir is found. Ahuawa, cinunioii on the bauks of tlie taro ponds, was pre- ]i;ired b\' drawing the freshly plucked sieiu l')etween two rounded sticks tightl\- e«.)nipressed for the purpose of rcmovdug the juices, and lieekling, and then spinning" the fresh lilrre into eord for the kc)ko. l^his fibre was also used for t\'ing on the thaU^li to the grass house. The hau, waoke and oloua were jirepared similarly, being parth' macerated in running water and scraped with a piece of pearl shell or turtle ;'" This would be a process of a few davs. The waoke, used so largely in the nianufaAnre of kapd, was restricted in eord to the making of koko and imianiental rope. The filaments are soft, clinging, and of ''"'^ '^"^ '•'^'^" uArtee^^ (udy moderate length, and while thus well siiite<l for b;irk cloth tliev would not hist in such falirie as fish net. Tlie liau, a hard fibre, had employment as heavy rope nndnl-c, but rarely in fish netting or koko, while the olonfi was tlie best used nuiterial for fishing lines and nets, also o(a-a,sionany finding its way into the better class koko. I'he grasses were liraided with little or no prrparation, the work being done while the material was green. The s-|;)inning of eord, lulo, was always done on the bare thigli bv wcjinen, the native ternrs for the process being liixilia for coir and lioalio for otlicr cords. Men generally attended to the braiding. "SMrinoirs I
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