Note 16 — PREFACE. (continued 6)

There are various names given the calabash and the water gourd. Here are some of them: Calabash, a container for food; when cut in half, it is a cover; a long calabash is a hokeo;16 when long, crooked and narrow, olo is the name; when the calabash is diminutive and handle strings are run through it it is a hulilau.