. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . etainers. This seems to account for the origin and present status of the ahuula malo is shown in Fig. 31. The teeth used as ornament are good specimens andwell drilled: the end ones are set in rows alternating with rows of what has been calledpalates of rays, but on examination I found the material consisted of small bundlesof fish teeth most ingeniously bound together by delicate fibres of olona into units ofthe size of an ordinary molar tooth. But we will proceed in a more orderly manner to the measurement of this curiousfeather d
. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum . etainers. This seems to account for the origin and present status of the ahuula malo is shown in Fig. 31. The teeth used as ornament are good specimens andwell drilled: the end ones are set in rows alternating with rows of what has been calledpalates of rays, but on examination I found the material consisted of small bundlesof fish teeth most ingeniously bound together by delicate fibres of olona into units ofthe size of an ordinary molar tooth. But we will proceed in a more orderly manner to the measurement of this curiousfeather decoration and return to a more complete examination of the details of the deco-ration later. First a closely woven net of olona inches wide and 11 feet and 10 incheslong, is covered on both sides by red iiwi feathers (the method of attachment has beenfully described in the Memoir to which this is a supplement, p. 51); to this on both We have seen how the mahiole and ahuula were otherwise B. P. Bishop Museum, Vol. VII.— FIG. 31. KAUMUAUIS MAI^O. CORDON OF KAUMUALII DESCRIBED. 35 edges is attached by frequent cords a lei of oo feathers increasing the width of the cordonto six inches. The chief end which is to hang in front is thickened and weighted bythe insertion of three rows of human teeth (of conquered enemies?), the rows beingseparated by the insertion of the little bundles of fish teeth already mentioned and tobe more fully described later. All the teeth are included from incisor to molar anddrilled and firmly attached to the net; the different sizes cause different numbers in therows, so the first row of small teeth has 17, the second 15 of larger size and the thirdrow has now 13, two are missing leaving 45 at present; the arrangement is clearly shownin Fig. 31. A baud of yellow 00 crosses the cordon 17 inches from the end, with teeth
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