New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-01-29

tention This was the native Hawaiian cloth.
beaten from the inner bark OF the paper null
berry or wauke and of the mamake trees and
was the only material used for clothing. prior
TO the arrival of the missionaries. and the canny
New-Enrland storekeepers. The museum pos
sesses more than thirty-ive thousand square
feet Of kappa cloth. enough fully TO support the
claim that the Hawaiian kapas were the best
in the world There is the greatest variety OF
color. pattern and texture
WOODEN BOWLS AND DISHES
Next come the wooden bowls ard dishes In
which the museum is exceedingly rich Many
Of the exhibits are Of admirable form. made long
before woodmaking machinery introduced
In the Islands. The Size and symmetry Of these
hand-carved bowls are only less marvellous than
is the extraordinary preservation OF the wood.
These wooden bowls were the service Of plate
OF the ancient kings and alii-huge poi bowls
used in common by all who could gather about
them at feast The largest Of these common
bowls is a poi bowl nine feet in circumference.
while the smallest Is little kou bowl. from
which Queen Emma ate when she was child.
There are not many dishes with carved supports
In this museum-not many there are in
London, but there are several good specimens.
There are dishes for fish. roast pig and roast
dog finger bowls fer washing at the feast. gourd
bottles and cocoanut cups for drinking small
dishes for inamona and in the midst Of all these
cOnVivial dishes like the skeleton AZ the Egyp-
tan feast, is the great trough in which the
body OF chief was dissected and his bones
cleaned. There are also the wooden cuspdors
which followed behind the chief the cuspdor-
bearer being the most important member Of
the royal following. because of the belief that
the least particle Of saliva obtained by an enemy
might serve as the mauna or bait 10y means or
which man might easily be prayed to death
In the dead Of night. the spittoon bearer rowed
far out 70 sea in a canoe and there eInptied the
spttoon. There several OF these queer re-
ceptacles each one carved with a handle which
is in one piece with the bowl-a sort OF niue
quirk Of tvig on the main branch There are
also the huge platters made for AIapainui the
great shark hunter These piatters were pre-
served for many years on the island OF HAWAI-
on the Kona side Of which Alapanui lived. They
were purchased from the natives in whose Gus
tody they had been for years. for a mere song
or. perhaps. were begged without any compensa-
ton at all by the missionary surveyor who
coveted them.
The Hawaians were great fishermen and this
department II d0fludttAy lEPiN1N+4N'~
olona Of great size and many kinds, fish traps
and hooks of fine workmanship. are shown VI
these last some are OF human bone. others or
tortoise she'll ivory OF shell, and here TOO are
hooks hammered from the nails procured from
the early voyagers The hooks range in size
from a dainty shell hook. less than half an
inch across to the large. wooden shark hook
which was always baited with human flesh.
The fine athletic sports Of the HaWaiians are
spendidlv represented. There IS a spherica
ulu Of good workmanship, weighing twenty-five
pounds, that would exhaust modern bowler.
There are several holuas, the small sled with
wooden runners. upon which the Hawaiian
youths used to slide downhih There are Ines
or spears which were the formidable weapons
OF these early warriors spears with which they
were 50 expert that they were able to eaten ana