Kanaloa

Tapa, a sort of papery cloth, is made from the bark of the paper mulberry.

Hawaiians say that in the earliest days their forefathers had only coverings made of long leaves or braided strips of grass, until two of the great gods, Kane and Kanaloa, took pity upon them and taught them to make kiheis, or shoulder capes.

tapa making was an important part of the work of the women it was sometimes brilliantly colored with vegetable dyes and a pattern put on with a bamboo stamp unlike the patterns which our indians wove into their baskets and blankets each one of which had its meaning these figures on the tapa had no special significance so far as is known by lapping strips of bark over each other and beating them together the tapa could be made of any desired size or thickness in the old legends hina the mother of the demi-god

maui figures as the chief tapa maker The clouds are her tapas

The curious belief in a second soul, or double, and in ghosts, the doctrines of a future state, and

the peculiar funeral rites, all of which formed part of the native religion, seem strange to many present-day Christian Hawaiians.

In all Polynesia, the four great gods were Kane, father of men and founder of the world, Kanaloa, his brother, Ku, the cruel one, and Lono, to

whom the New Year games were sacred.