Lei niho palaoa just like new?

[Found under: “NA MEA KUPONO NO NA HOME” (Things Good for the Home)]

For Hawaiian women’s lei palaoa, or boar tusk, or perhaps elephant ivory fashioned into stick pins, they can certainly be cleaned with turpentine [aila hoomaloo], and dried out in the sun for two or three days; and its shine will be like a new one.

Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke XLII, Helu 27, Aoao 5. Iulai 5, 1907.

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