Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from String Figures From the Marquesas and Society Islands
Although today there is no association in the native mind of definite figures with their ancient use as patterns for the lashings of canoes, coffins, house posts, adzes and the like, still there is interesting circumstantial evi dence regarding at least one of them (no humu, fig. 14, b). The sacred chant called oho cm 0 M otu-haiki, which was recited for the sacred first born, commemorates the pattern once used for the binding of the child's sacred adz.
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