The string figure Lonomuku represents the woman in the moon. One leg (side) is shorter than the other because when she tried to escape from her abusive husband by leaping to the moon, he grabbed hold and tore it off. Her family maintains that she dismembered her leg as a pinned mo'o does to their tail when trapped. Picture taken outside of Pa'I Foundation where classes are held free of charge to interested learners.

Here I am in my first Papa Hei performing Koko a Makali'i, the net of Makali'i. Our kupuna (elders)tell us that Makali'i took all the food on earth and hung them in the sky. Only the rat people were able to save mankind from starvation by climbing upon the rainbow and nibbling on the net so that food would once again return to earth. The place that the rat people fell is called 'Iole (rat) on the island of Hawai'i. A portion of the net was embedded in a rock on the south side of the island.