. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. 152 llie Ajicinil I[(rdhui(i)i House. Here we may lueiitioii a pleasing custom of tlie lln,waiians wliicli lias sttrvived witliin my own ol)servatiyii, for a chief tx) bend down a 3'oiing" coconut tree in token of talcing posscssioti, and ever afterwards the tree was known l)y the name of that chief, and on gathering the first nnts, the chief had them made into cups for presents to friends. Several such enps are in this Museum, as the cup c)f Pauahi, the mother of Keeliko
. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. 152 llie Ajicinil I[(rdhui(i)i House. Here we may lueiitioii a pleasing custom of tlie lln,waiians wliicli lias sttrvived witliin my own ol)servatiyii, for a chief tx) bend down a 3'oiing" coconut tree in token of talcing posscssioti, and ever afterwards the tree was known l)y the name of that chief, and on gathering the first nnts, the chief had them made into cups for presents to friends. Several such enps are in this Museum, as the cup c)f Pauahi, the mother of Keelikolani, thai of Oneeii Kamanialn, and that of Liliha, Marlame Boki and daughter of Hoapili: the last two cups were from the famous grove of ])alms at Kalapana on Hawaii. The cups shown in Fig. 135 were such as described. Begiriiiiiig on the left of the figure, No. 5016 was a enp of Pauahi, mother of Iveelikolani; Xo. 1521 belonged to Liliha, daughter of Hoapili and wife of Boki. Tlie next is No. 502<S, an nmeke kou used for poi l)_v Queen Knima when a chihl. No. 1519 also belonged to Liliha; No. 5012 to I^auahi; No. 1520 to IJIiha, and the last tnie, No. 5017, belonged to Oueen Kamamabi, danghter of Kameha- mcha I, who with her husband IJholilio died in I England in 1S24. Umeke I/aau.^Implements of wood were l)y faj" the most interesting as well as most nnmerons of all the domestic nteiisils in Hawaiian housekeeping, and we shall find much to Hur|)rise us and not a little to eonimen(k rrom their materml they were nnn-e durable than the vessels of gourd; from the labor bestowed upon them they were proportionately valued; and like tlie precious feather work were preserved in families, and handed down from generation to generation, until the foreigner has come lt» the Islands and appreciating the workmanship and grace, has tried tcj imitate tliem on the lathe, but willi poor success and has ended in gathering to himself the choicest remains of this "Age of Wood",
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