. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. T^liylTlIliR C!A)AKS AND CAPES, net or n,u- was fonuecl with a netting needle (Hia aho ka nprna) A ilie form coimiiuii to most peoples and found among tlic relies of llie ancient Egyptians as well jis in the grass hots of Hawaii. The fineness of the net varies as does the size of the thread nor can 1 find that any partienlar fineness was peculiar to an)- time or phice; in the same eloak ma}- be found pieces of very ^-arying degrees. The same netted fahric thai was used in the
. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. T^liylTlIliR C!A)AKS AND CAPES, net or n,u- was fonuecl with a netting needle (Hia aho ka nprna) A ilie form coimiiuii to most peoples and found among tlic relies of llie ancient Egyptians as well jis in the grass hots of Hawaii. The fineness of the net varies as does the size of the thread nor can 1 find that any partienlar fineness was peculiar to an)- time or phice; in the same eloak ma}- be found pieces of very ^-arying degrees. The same netted fahric thai was used in the making of feather cloaks also served for the nialo or waistband o\ chiefs; and one of these very dnral)le dresses, fringed with human teetli (mnch decayed) is to l>e seen in the Fh'sho|} Mnsenm. | B. M. Xo. 6921. | It was eoninion custom to net Ijands of a width from S to 12 inches, and this was cut and joined as the rolls of modern eh)th would he used Iw the shaper. In tlie cloak of Kiwalao (Pb XI.) there are more than thirty irregnhir pieces thus joined, and in the covering of the Ivn- kailimokn even more entting and fitting was required. To fasten the feathers to this net mncli finer thread, often single fibres, was used and the feather was bound In' two or three tnnrs of tlie thread in the waj- shown in Fig. 45. The shaft of the feather was hound by one turn, then bent at a and the end h bound, by another Inrn of the thread, to the same or the next lower mesh. This was a very secure met hud, and the feather could be broken hut not pnlled out whole. One skilful in attaching the feathers could easilv arrangx' the pAn of the hunch so as to completely conceal the uniting thread ulo'ch often was of cc)nsideral)1e length and |)assed unbroken down tlu^ rows. On the reverse the feathers did not show at all and llie thread being of the same material is hardlv visible; onI\- when llic cloak is much worn, and the net originally of open texture, <Io tlio featliers show through, a
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