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January 17, 1973. Heʻeia Fishpond (Hawaiian: Loko Iʻa O Heʻeia) is an ancient Hawaiian fishpond located at Heʻeia on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. A walled coastal pond (loko iʻa kuapā), it is the only Hawaiian fishpond fully encircled by a wall (kuapā). Constructed sometime between the early 1200s and early 1400s, it was badly damaged ...
Ancient Hawaiian aquaculture. Alekoko "Menehune" fishpond. Before contact with Europeans, the Hawaiian people practiced aquaculture through development of fish ponds (Hawaiian: loko iʻa), the most advanced fish-husbandry among the original peoples of the Pacific. While other cultures in places like Egypt and China also used the practice ...
Māhaki. Māhaki ( fl. 1470s) was a Māori rangatira (chieftain) in the area north of modern Gisborne on the East Cape of New Zealand and the ancestor of the Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki iwi. He may have lived in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.
The episode also features Hi'ilei Kawelo, an Indigenous fisherwoman and founder and executive director of Paepae o He'eia in Oahu, Hawaii, who has made it her life's work to restore an ancient ...
ʻUluakimata I. ʻUluaki-mata, also known as Teleʻa (active c. 1580-1600 CE [1]), was the twenty-ninth Tuʻi Tonga. He was reportedly one of the mightiest of these rulers, although his power was often characterized as spiritual rather than political. Many traditions recount that his reign was marked by great social changes.
Megaliths. Arguably Tonga's most famous monument is the Haʻamonga ʻa Maui, a six-metre-tall (20 ft) trilithon consisting in three coral slabs (two holding up the third as a crosspiece), located in the east of Tongatapu (the country's main island), "near the villages of Niutoua and Afa". It is thought to have been erected around the year 1200 ...
Liloa's Kāʻei. Līloa's Kāʻei (Liloa's Sash) or Kāʻei Kapu o Liloa (the sacred sash of Līloa) is the sacred feathered sash of Līloa, king of the Big Island of Hawaiʻi. The Statue of Kamehameha the Great, commissioned by King Kalākaua, displayed the kāʻei. [1] It is in the collection of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu. This kāʻei is ...
Ederlezi (song) " Ederlezi " is a popular traditional folk song of the Romani people in the Balkans. The song got its name from Ederlezi, which is a festival [1] celebrating the return of springtime, especially by the Romani people of the Balkans, and elsewhere around the world. Ederlezi is the Romani name for the Feast of Saint George.