The Ancient Hawaiian HouseBishop Museum Press, 1908 - 194 Seiten The Ancient Hawaiian House by William Tufts Brigham, first published in 1908, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it. |
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adze alaila ancient Auamo BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP bowls braid breadfruit building built calabash canoe carved cave chief cocoa-nut coconut cord covered cups decorated diameter dishes door durable dwellings eaves fastened feet high feet long figure Fiji Fijian Fijian house floor foreign frame gable gourd grass house ground Guinea halau hale hana Hawaii Hawaiian house Honolulu hook handle housebuilding huewai inches kahua Kamehameha kapa Kauai kauila Keelikolani keia kekahi Kiriwina laau lanai leaf leaves Maori Marquesan mats MEMOIRS B. P. B. MUSEUM MEMOIRS BISHOP MUSEUM missionary modern native noho old Hawaiian oloná ornamented Pacific pandanus pataka pau ia Pile dwellings pillow PLATE platform pole Polynesian posts rafters ridge-pole roof Samoan seen sennit shape shell shown in Fig side sleeping Solomon Islands sticks stone tambu-house thatch thick timber Tongan tree umeke village Voyage walls wood
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Seite 269 - And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither : so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
Seite 305 - Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out ; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there ; and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
Seite 213 - Interim ex fatalibus libris sacrificia aliquot extraordinaria facta ; inter quae Gallus et Galla, Graecus et Graeca in foro bovario sub terram vivi demissi sunt in locum saxo 25 consaeptum, jam ante hostiis humanis, minime Romano sacro, inhutum.
Seite 200 - These rolls of mats and bedding, a bundle or two done up in native cloth, on the same shelf in the centre of the house, a basket, a fan or two, and a...
Seite 210 - The grass or reed thatch is laid on in rather thin tiers, and fastened down by long rods, found ready for use in the mangrove forests, and from ten to twenty feet long, and secured to the rafters by split rattans. Some very good houses are covered first with the cane leaves, and then with the grass, forming a double thatch. Sometimes the eaves are made two feet thick with ferns, and have a good effect ; but, when thicker, they look heavy, and, by retaining the wet, soon rot. The ridge of superior...
Seite 194 - I saw at the other isles; being inclosed or walled on every side with reeds neatly put together, but not close. The entrance is by a square hole about two and a half feet each way. The form of these houses is an oblong square; the floor or foundation every way shorter than the eve, which is about four feet from the ground. By this construction, the rain that falls on the roof is carried off from the wall; which otherwise would decay and rot.
Seite 198 - ... cocoa-nut leaf blinds. During the day the blinds are pulled up, and all the interior exposed to a free current of air. The floor is raised six or eight inches with rough stones, then an upper layer of smooth pebbles, then some cocoa-nut leaf mats, and then a layer of finer matting. Houses of important chiefs are erected on a raised platform of stones three feet high. In the centre of the house there are two...
Seite 198 - The thatch, also, is laid on with great care and taste ; the long dry leaves of the sugarcane are strung on to pieces of reed five feet long ; they are made fast to the reed by overlapping the one end of the leaf, and pinning it with the rib of the coconut leaflet, run through from leaf to leaf horizontally.
Seite 250 - Their houses, or at least most of them, are circular, something like a bee-hive, and full as close and warm. The entrance is by a small door, or long square hole, just big enough to admit a man bent double. The side-walls...
Seite 253 - ... dark-coloured material that burns with a tarry and somewhat fragrant odour. Other resins and gums are yielded by the trees, one of which somewhat resembles the " kauri " gum of New Zealand, and occurs in a similar situation beneath the soil ; but I was unable to find the tree. In the tambu-houses of St. Christoval and the adjoining islands we have a style of building on which all the mechanical skill of which the natives are possessed has been brought to bear. These sacred buildings have many...