. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. mm i^mmml I'SIC IK WHICH KKKIJ'K J) IK I :.-\ii,cA, riAWAii. than with grass. &c. The shell is now finislied, and generally, except in the lowness of the sides and steepness of the roof, looks much like a hay^-rick, particularly as until recently they never thought of making windows, and had only one aperture, wliich was the entrance. A large portion of that end of the /ta/aa which faces the sea, is ttsnally open. The houses of this kind were probably origi^ nally e
. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. mm i^mmml I'SIC IK WHICH KKKIJ'K J) IK I :.-\ii,cA, riAWAii. than with grass. &c. The shell is now finislied, and generally, except in the lowness of the sides and steepness of the roof, looks much like a hay^-rick, particularly as until recently they never thought of making windows, and had only one aperture, wliich was the entrance. A large portion of that end of the /ta/aa which faces the sea, is ttsnally open. The houses of this kind were probably origi^ nally erected hir the construction and preservation of canoes, for which purpose they are still some- times used, though frecpiently occupied as dwellings. In the common dwelling honse, the door is frecjuently on one sirh.!. In the old houses the doors are always low. Since foreigners have resided among tlieni, and built houses wdth doors and windows, the natives have enlarged their doors, though there are yet but few that can be entered without stooping. Some of them also begin to think win- dows a convenience, bnt they by no means fall in with our ideas of uniformity in the disposition of them. vSometimcH we have .seen a house forty or fifty feet long, with the door at one end, and a small wintlow at the other, half wav up to the top of the roof. Again, we have entered a house of O64]. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum. Honolulu : Bishop Museum Press
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