Read this article on the string game and chant, Halehale ke Alha, by Hawaiian scholar, Kihei de Silva.
http://kaiwakiloumoku.ksbe.edu/
Monday, August 30, 2010
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Men at 'Aha Kane 2010
The second annual 'Aha Kane (Hawaiian men's conference) was held at Windward Community College. I was asked to teach hei, Hawaiian string figure making. Hei is not merely a child's game as string, cord, sennit were essential "tools" in a man's work - to bind an adze, lash beams, lash canoe parts, knotting nets, etc.
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