Old time Hawaiians and their work . give it an even texture. All this time it was keptmoist with water. The tapa could be made any size or shape by over-lapping strips and beating them together. 56 OLD-TIME HAWAIIANS AND THEIR WORK Tapawas bleached in the sun to make it white. Color-ing matter was made from soil, or from berries or rootspounded in a stone mortar with a vegetable oil and mixed with water. Tapa was colored bysoaking it in this dye. A perfume was made of sandal-wood, or of pandanus seeds steepedin a vegetable oil. Tapa soaked inthis became waterproof, but it did Pandanus Brush ^o
Old time Hawaiians and their work . give it an even texture. All this time it was keptmoist with water. The tapa could be made any size or shape by over-lapping strips and beating them together. 56 OLD-TIME HAWAIIANS AND THEIR WORK Tapawas bleached in the sun to make it white. Color-ing matter was made from soil, or from berries or rootspounded in a stone mortar with a vegetable oil and mixed with water. Tapa was colored bysoaking it in this dye. A perfume was made of sandal-wood, or of pandanus seeds steepedin a vegetable oil. Tapa soaked inthis became waterproof, but it did Pandanus Brush ^ot last long. There were many different pat-terns upon the tapa, made up of lines and figures with-out any special meaning. These patterns were stampedwith a bamboo stamp or painted with a brush. The brushwas a piece of bamboo split at one end. Another kindof brush was made from a section of the pandanus fruitfrayed at one end. The brush was dipped into a calabash of paint, heldover the tapa in the right hand, and pressed down with.
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