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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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Upena Eke. i6r zontal bag, tapering but slightly away from the mouth, which is at one end. At the other end in the specimen is an opening less than half the size of the mouth, where probably was fastened a closed bag of smaller size. In seAion, the bag is semicircular, with the arc above. The bottom part of the net called honiia is anchored by stones at the corners of the mouth and at two points along each side about ten and twenty feet from the mouth. Between these points, stretching the honua wide are sticks called piihi. There is another stone at the tail end of the bag. To the upper curved part, called lana, the pikoi are fastened in great numbers in irregular rows. Heavy ropes of hau run the whole length of the bag, one along each edge and one on each slope of the lana ;c- tl /eet -->, about8 feet from the edge. The total length of the lana is 39 feet, the first 21 feet from the mouth being light cord of .08 inch in thickness and of 1.5 inches mesh, and the rest of heavy cord .17 inch thick and i.2-1.4 inches mesh. The lana is 29 feet in width at the mouth, measuring the ropes, and the lighter portion is made up of five pieces of wide netting averaging 33 meshes long and decreasing from 407 meshes wide in the first piece at the mouth to 238 meshes in the fifth. The pieces are run together by aea, in this net called kvipuhu This method of tapering a net seems to have been preferred by natives to the use of the knot known as makakukai, already mentioned. The heavier part of the lana is in two pieces, 112 and 70 meshes long, and respecftively 170 and 165 meshes wide. Of the honua, there remains but one piece, of the heavier cord, at the rear end. It is about 11 feet or 113 meshes long and 130 meshes wide. Leading away from the sides of the mouth, there should be two long nets called pakii, the same depth as the bag, at a wide angle to each other, as a drive. The net on the right is said to be 15 fathoms long, and that on the left 10 fathoms. Upena kola is said to be a net on the same lines as the preceding, but on a much larger scale. The same is reported of the net used in Lau kapalilL It is probable that the nets c^W^^papahului and au^maUwa and used in conjundion with each other are also similar. MEMOIRS B, P. B. MUSEUM, VOL, II, NO. I —H.
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NO. 165. /3/C 3^/ru). DIAGRAM Oi^ UPENA NAK KUKU.

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