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Title: Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History
Identifier: acs9793.0002.003.umich.edu
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum
Subjects: Natural history; Ethnology
Publisher: Honolulu : Bishop Museum Press
Contributing Library: University of Michigan
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Michigan

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124 The Ancient Ifazvaiiau House. inipleiiiciits and the orange of llie gourcl containers witli tlie deeper colors of tlic niiieke struck no discordant note. It is nsek\ss to sd.)' tkal if it liad no eye woiikl kave been offendeKl in the dimlv lighted interior; almost all the furniture was used out of doors and onl)' stored within ; but whether placed b)* the brookside under the trees, in tlie hmai, or piled np on the grav stone platform around, or at least in front of the house, there was not a shining tin pan or kettle, nor a vilely decorated bit of crockery (as so
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often in modern degenerate times) to offend good taste; everything harmonized as eoinmonly with the uneorriipted children of the simple life. The universal ont-of-door life in the fine climate of Hawaii kept the house clean and permilled the rise of a fk)or covering of mats of fine texture; nineh better these than the rnshes strewn n;)ou the floors of our Anglo-Saxon ancestors. These mats have already been descril)ed in the publications of this Musenm/^' and it need only l)e repeated lierc that in tlie better houses the actual floor was covered with several layers of mats, souietimes all of pandanus leaf l)nt in fineness increasing from the Ijuttom hyyer, at other times tlie lower ones were of pandanus and the upper one of nmkaloa^ a fine ru,sh of whicli the best and most durable Hawaiian mats were made. On the general coarser mat ccn'cring of the floor was often placed the bed or kikiee^ a strnAurc of mats interleaved "'•Hawaiian Miit and Baskt-t Weaving. MeinoirH ii, pt. i, fq(.6. I308J

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