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Fornander collection of Hawaiian antiquities and folk-lore, Volume 2 (of 3)

Note 190 — CONTENTS. (continued 4)

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7. If the kapa be kapala,190 charcoal is pulverized to a powder. Then when being beaten the kapa is painted (daubed) with the black water of the charcoal. This is continued until the kapa is cut, and so on until there is enough for a set. But it is dried like those first kapa. Because this kapa is daubed with charcoal, it is called “kapala.”

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