A spare moment leaded us to learning "Honu" the Hawaiian green sea turtle

Found a new blog on hei/whai. Looks like practitioner is a young man. http://maori-string-figures.blogspot.com/

ʻUala (Sweet potatoe)

Nice ʻuala (sweet potatoe) growing under ground and showing roots.

Hawaiian Performance Cartography of Kaua'i

I write about the relationship of hei to performance cartography. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1024801.pdf

A miniature version of Kauhale a Limaloa or House Complex of Limaloa, god of mirages

La'au a Kaleikini.

La'au a Kaleikini - Tree of Kaleikini is the only known string figure in Hawai'i and possibly the world that utilizes a prop. The stick represents trees that Kaleikini, a strong chief, would pull and plug blowholes near the ocean because the salt water spray would ruin local food crops. The lower string represent the blowholes. Performer is Frank Ka'iuokalani Damas.

Kaʻiulani Damas makes "Pae Mahu o Kauaʻi" a figure about spiritual healers from a far. The figure begins on the thumbs similar to figures made bythe Kwatkiutl. Could these healers have been Kwatkiutl carried to Kauaʻi on currents? Petroglyphs can be found at the foot of the Wailua River on Kauaʻi showing circular beings as shown in the loops of the figure.