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15 Feb 2013
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Hawaiian Word of the Day: punana

punana: 1. Nest, gathering place, shelter, hive; to nest. Fig., home. Punana ka manu i Haili, the bird nests at Haili. E make auane’i au i loko o ku’u punana, I shall die within my nest. He aikane, he punana na ke onaona, a friend is a nest of fragrance. ho’o.punana. To make a nest, to settle in a nest or over young; to sit on eggs, as a hen; to take shelter. Ho’opunana ka mana’o, to set the mind on, plan, focus attention on. 2. A variety of sweet potato. 3. A process of making women’s pa’u; white tapa. (Pukui & Elbert, 1971).

kapa Lole
(Ka Hana Kapa O Leilehua Yuen)

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11 Feb 2013

Hawaiian Word of the Day: kua

kua: 1. Back, rear, burden, windward; to carry on the back, as a child. 2. To hew, chop,chip, hack, dub, strike, cut out; to fell, strike down, as an image; anvil, as of a blacksmith or for beating tapa; house used for beating tapa. 3. Beam, rafter. 4. Yoke of a dress; back of a garment; ox yoke. 5. Poles used in quilt making; the three unsewn quilt layers are placed on one another with the kua, poles, rolled into each end; the entirety is set over wooden horses and is stretched taut, so that the sewer may sew the layers together. 6. Variation of akua, god, image, especially after -a. 7. Midrib, as of pandanus leaf. 8. Third brew from kava. (Pukui & Elbert, 1971).

kua

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07 Feb 2013
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wauke, po’a’aha

wauke2http://data.bishopmuseum.org/ethnobotanydb/ethnobotany.php?b=d&ID=wauke

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07 Feb 2013

Hawaiian Word of the Day

mole: 1. Tap root, main root; bottom, as of a pit or of a glass; ancestral root; foundation, source, cause. 2. Smooth, round, bald. ho’o.mole. To smooth. 3. Name of the smooth, uncarved side of a tapa beater, as used at the end of the beating to smooth out the cloth. 4. To linger, loiter, lag; backward.

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11 Jan 2013
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2013, New Year, New Beginnings

My goal in starting this blog is to learn all I can about Hawaiian kapa. From tools to processes, from designs to pigments and dyes… I hope to create a repository for my research and a journal that documents my journey. I hope that the knowledge shared here is of interest to others. Perhaps more importantly, I expect to be transformed as a person, as an artist, and as a Hawaiian… as my identity embraces the mana’o of my ancestors….

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