Old time Hawaiians and their work . Making Tapa54 TAPA MAKING 55 the rocks. As the shrubs grew, their branches spread. A year or two after planting they were cut down by the men, and the bark was divided into long strips. Women rolledthese strips withthe inside surfaceexposed so as tolet the sap evapo-rate, and then, hav-ing scraped off theouter bark with asharp shell, theysoaked the bun-dles in the soaking, the tapa was beaten on a smooth stone with a round mallet; this felted the fibers together. When it had been soaked again, it was beaten on a. Tapa Beaters

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