He poured some medicine into the wound and pushed the tapa and blood inside.
They were to build a tabu fence around the heiau and put up the sacred tabu staffs of white tapa cloth.
Lono came, saw the blood, took it and wrapped it in a piece of tapa cloth and returned to the place where the chief lay almost dead.
Her mother is one of the few converted in Geog Tapa before the first revival.
Geog Tapa could also boast of its committee of arrangements, in humble imitation of greater things.
On another occasion, when John and Moses were riding to Geog Tapa on the same horse, they again engaged in devotion; but as the horse was unruly, they each prayed in turn, while the other held the reins.
The next glimpse we take of Geog Tapa shall be from a native standpoint.
A few Sabbaths ago, I went to Geog Tapa with Mr. Stoddard.
Miss Fiske left for Geog Tapa on the 14th of June with Mr. Stocking, reaching that place as the people were coming out from evening prayers in the church.
The village of Geog Tapa is so prominent, and has been so largely blessed, that, though there is not room for a continuous account of the work in that place, we here give a glimpse of its progress in different years.
Afternoon came, and as the time for meeting drew near, old and young were eagerly engaged in getting ready their contributions (in Geog Tapa the monthly concert is held on Sabbath afternoon), and as many as two hundred came together.
If we had many such mothers in Geog Tapa how changed it would be!
After a very pleasant evening spent in Geog Tapa with those who were seeking Jesus, Hanee, the pupil with whom she staid, came and asked, "Would you like to be alone?
The malua-ula was a variety of tapa that was stained with hili kukui (the root-bark of the kukui tree).
The spear of the chief shall rot in the cave, And the tapa of the maid is left undone.
The father reached up for the net containing the skulls, and putting the bundle of tapa in it, tied the net around his neck.
Portion of a tapa stamp, showing its subtextile character.
Formerly the maro and the slight covering of the tapa alone shielded them from the sun and rain.
This bed consists of mats; and the covers are either of tapa cloth--which is as though you should sleep under newspapers--or of blankets.
Tapa is not made at Graciosa Bay, but inland; it is often painted in simple but effective geometrical designs.
The dress of the men consists of a narrow belt of bark and a strip of tapa worn between the legs.
It was hard, laboring over the tapa every day, and especially hunting for the olona which Hina sometimes used.
Hina, the goddess who in the long ago made her home in the great cave beneath Rainbow Falls, was especially gifted in the art of tapa making.
It grieved Maui to see his mother's tapaso often spoiled, so he besought the Sun to go more slowly.
Days were short in the narrow walled-in river gorge and the Sun shone directly on the tapa for only a few hours, passing then beyond the high western wall, and gloom would settle about the cave, growing deeper with oncoming night.
After the tapa was made it had to be placed for the Sun to dry, but by the time Hina would reach the drying frames, the Sun was far up in the sky.
They fixed up a kalabash covered with tapa to resemble a man and placed it in the middle of Maui's canoe.
Quite often the dyes with which the designs were painted on the tapa were not entirely dry when the tapa was taken in, and many fine pieces were smeared and ruined.
The tapa used in binding this book is of the stout, heavy grade; but that used for clothing and scarfs is often as sheer as fine muslin.
In the making of tapa man's hand was tabu, yet he could not forbear an occasional suggestion when his mother created mystic designs for decoration of her work.
Tapa making is confined entirely to the women, men never occupying themselves with any of its processes.
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.
Ancient Hawaiians wrapped their dead in tapa with fragrant herbs, such as the flowers of sugar-cane, which had the property of embalming them.
By lapping strips of bark over each other and beating them together, the tapa could be made of any desired size or thickness.
Each boat is painted a different design, like a fine piece oftapa cloth.
The day we prepared to leave, the king and queen gave us presents--one of the most valuable of these an extra fine piece of tapa cloth, which I still retain.
They forced us to take presents of tapa cloth and ornaments of sharks' and porpoises' teeth, and corals, while we made presents to them out of our stores of tinned provisions.
Of course, this tapa cloth could never have been bought elsewhere for such a sum, but in the Marquesas quality is not considered in setting prices--only quantity.
Two young girls in the centre of the group were dressed in gala array of feathers and tapa cloths of gay colours, and each was carrying an ornamental club.
Hina of the Rainbow Falls was a famous tapa maker whose tapa was the cause of Maui's conflict with the sun.
Therefore, when the moon is shining in full splendor, they shade their eyes and look for the goddess and the tools with which she fashions the tapa clouds in the heavens.
The wet tapa was spread on a long tapa board, and Hina began at one end to pound it into shape; pounding from one end to another.
Hina took small bundles of the wet inner bark and laid them on the kua or heavy tapa board, pounding them together into a pulpy mass with her round clubs.
The Samoans said that the Moon received Hina and a child, and also her tapa board and mallet and material for the manufacture of tapa cloth.
By the side of this river, the legends say, she pounded her tapa and prepared her food.
The bark was well soaked in the water all the days of the process of tapa making.
Hina had wonderful skill in making all kinds of tapa according to the custom of the women of ancient Hawaii.
She would rise as soon as she could see and hasten to spread out the tapa made the day before.
Tapa cloth was often treated to a coat of cocoa-nut, or candle-nut oil, making it somewhat waterproof and also more durable.
He goes so fast that he never dries the tapa Hina has beaten out.
The days were very short and there was no time for rest while making tapa cloth.
When she rolls her cloud sheets of tapa together, the folds glisten with flashes of light and lightning leaps from sheet to sheet.
Off on one side would be the rude shelter, in the shadow of which Hina pounded the bark of certain trees into wood pulp and then into strips of thin, soft wood-paper, which bore the name of "Tapa cloth.
Emerson says that the piko was saved in a bottle or salted and wrapped in tapa until a suitable time came to deposit it in some sacred place.
Kilohana is the name given to the outside decorated piece of tapa in a skirt of five layers; it means generally, therefore, "the very best" in contrast to that which is inferior.
Pakaa brings the king the loin cloth and scented tapahe has had in keeping, prepares his food in the old way, and makes him so comfortable that the king regrets his old servant.
His dress, composed of tapa cloth, shells, and feathers, was more elaborate than any I had seen in the islands.
The women were attired in petticoats of white tapa cloth, which hung down in strips from a girdle round their waists.
Next day I consigned her body to the deep wrapped in her robe of white tapa cloth which formed her shroud.
She was dressed in a robe of white tapa cloth with strings of bright shells and gold ornaments upon her neck and arms.
It consists of tapa cloth cut in a deep fringe depending from waist to knee.
They were all entirely naked except for a strip oftapa cloth, which formed a tee-band around the middle and hung down behind like a tail.
At Geog Tapa three or four hundred were present at the concert, and they joined contributions with their prayers.
The Sabbath-school in Geog Tapa numbered more than two hundred.
He ordered the leading men of Geog Tapa to break up the schools in that village, and received a respectful but decided refusal.
Geog Tapa again shared largely in the spiritual blessings of a revived religious feeling.
Tapa thus created the five Urjaskara fires, all bright as gold.
The celebrated Tapawas thus very happy with his sons.
Of the son of Tapa who is known as Rathantara, it is said by officiating priests that the sacrificial oblation offered in his honour is offered to Mitravinda.
Did I not see the former queen lift the hem of his tapa and bow over it?
No," said Tui N'Kualita; "the tapa I got from the god Kadavu is good enough.
Tui N'Kualita had gone to Na Moliwai to hunt for the eel, and there, as he sank his arms in the eel's hole, he found it a piece of tapa that he knew to be the dress of a child.
By the will of God, the house of Lang Radjouna Tapa was overturned, the storehouse for rice fell to pieces, and the rice was changed to earth.
Lang Radjouna Tapa was extremely wounded by the treatment of his daughter.
Lang Radjouna Tapa answered, "There is no more, my Lord.
Another revival of religion occurred in both the seminaries, at the opening of the year 1858, which was extended to Geog Tapaand other villages.
Geog Tapa had a very fine school, entirely supported by the people themselves, which almost vied with the seminaries.
The ingenious Mr Tapa patted the hand on his shoulder, but his ears burned on.
The best part of it were some natives in war array; with blacked faces, turbans, tapa kilts, and guns, they looked very manly and purposelike.
At dinner at Geog-tapa I noticed that it is a mark of friendship for a man to dip a piece of bread (a sop) into the soup and give it to another, a touching reminiscence.
Geog-tapa (cerulean hill) possesses one of the largest of the Zoroastrian mounds of ashes.
At the large village of Geog-tapa a young horseman overtook me, and said in my native tongue, "Can you speak English?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tapa" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
