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doubt. ] [Footnote 100: _Auwana_. Said to be an eminence on the flank of Haleakala, back of Ulupalakua.] [Footnote 101: _Apua_. A place on Hawaii, on Maui, on Oahu, on Kauai, and on Molokai.] [Footnote 102: _Mama ula ia ka malua ula_. The malua-ula was a variety of tapa that was stained with _hili kukui_ (the root-bark of the kukui tree). The ripe kukui nut was chewed into a paste and mingled with this stain. _Mama ula_ refers to this chewing. The _malua ula_ is mentioned as a foil to the pa-u, being a cheap tapa.] [Footnote 103: _I_. A contracted form of _ti_ or _ki_, the plant or, as in this case, the leaf of the _ti_, the Dracaena (pl. V). Liloa, the father Of Umi, used it to cover himself after his amour with the mother of Umi, having given his malo in pledge to the woman. Umi may have used this same leaf as a substitute for the malo while in the wilderness of Laupahoehoe, hiding away from his brother, King Hakau.] [Footnote 104: _Olona_. A strong vegetable fiber sometimes added to tapa to give it strength. The fibers of olona in the fabric of the pa-u are compared to the runnels and brooklets of _Waihilau_.] [Footnote 105: _Wai-hilau_. Name applied to the water that drips in a cave in Puna. It is also the name of a stream in Wai-pi'o valley, Hawaii.] [Footnote 106: _Kilo-hana_. The name given the outside, ornamented, sheet of a set (_kuina_) of five tapas used as bed-clothing. It was also applied to that part of a pa-u which was decorated with figures. The word comes from _kilohi_, to examine critically, and _hana_, to work, and therefore means an ornamental work.] [Footnote 107: _Ohe_. Bamboo. In this case the stamp, made from bamboo, used to print the tapa.] [Footnote 108: _Ala_. The hard, dark basalt of which the Hawaiian _ko'i_, adz, is made; any pebble, or small water-worn stone, such as would be used to hold in place the pa-u while spread out to dry.] [Footnote 109: _Kane-poha-ka'a_. Kane-the-hail-sender. The great god Kane was also conceived of as Kane-hekili, the th
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