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Title: Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History
Identifier: acs9793.0002.001.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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134 Hawaiian Nets and Abetting. apt piipils. It may be tliat the natives owe the knowledge of the ptiu to Juan Gaetano's Spaniards of about 1550, as with the shapes of their remarkable feather helmets. However, no matter what the origin, even if the knot were of foreign introduction, the natives had seen its adaptability to their work, and by their adoption of it into the manufa(?ture of their articles, they have surely given it a domicile sufficiently Hawaiian. There are many at- tractive patterns in the koko puupuu, to which no native in these da5^s is able to attach any significance or name. One old native, after being questioned in vain, remarked disgustedly: **The haole (foreigners) want all the time to put a number or a name on every- thing, but these to the natives were just koko.^' It was thought by the writer that the different grades of alii (which were multitudi- nous) might be entitled to distinct styles of koko, and without doubt, the greater
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the chief, the koko. the better was Certain chiefs tAVv<^, i?IG. 138. HANAI K. were entitled to a particular form of tabu (or kapn) and in their presence, or when their food was carried by, the common people were required to fall on their faces, sit or kneel, according to the order of the tabu. It seemed quite feasible that certain of the koko might designate the rank of the owner by the pattern and so make it know^n to the people, but Dr. Alexander, a recognized authority of matters Hawaiian, stated that for the purpose of proclaiming the degree of chiefship, a crier was sent before the

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  • bookyear:1899
  • bookdecade:1890
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Bernice_Pauahi_Bishop_Museum
  • booksubject:Natural_history
  • booksubject:Ethnology
  • bookpublisher:Honolulu_Bishop_Museum_Press
  • bookcontributor:University_of_Michigan
  • booksponsor:University_of_Michigan
  • bookleafnumber:149
  • bookcollection:michigan_books
  • bookcollection:americana
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