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The Hawaiian feather cloaks were decorated using yellow, red, sometimes black and green plumage taken from specific types of native birds [22] [23] (cf. § Bird feathers below). The plant used to make the netting is olonā or Touchardia latifolia , a member of the nettle family [ 24 ] (cf. § Early and later types ).
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18th-century Hawaiian helmet and cloak, signs of royalty. Ancient Hawaiʻi was a caste society developed from ancestral Polynesians. In The overthrow of the kapu system in Hawaii, Stephenie Seto Levin describes the main classes: [27] Aliʻi. This class consisted of the high and lesser chiefs of the realms.
A mythical enemy-incinerating kapa (barkcloth) cape, retold as a feather skirt in one telling, occurs in Hawaiian mythology. In the tradition regarding the hero ʻAukelenuiaʻīkū, [c] the hero's grandmother Moʻoinanea who is matriarch of the divine lizards (moʻo akua, or simply moʻo) gives him her severed tail, which transforms into a cape (or kapa lehu, i.e. tapa) that turns enemies into ...
Kaneʻalai (also known as Kane-a-Laʻe) was a Queen regnant of the Hawaiian island of Molokai, who lived in the 18th century. She ruled as Alii nui of Molokai. She was a daughter of Luahiwa II (of the reigning family of Kauai) and Ka-hoʻoia-a-Pehu. [1] Kaneʻalai planted a mountain apple tree. [2]
Hawaiian feather helmets, known as mahiole in the Hawaiian language, [2] were worn with feather cloaks (ʻahu ʻula). These were symbols of the highest rank reserved for the men of the aliʻi , [ 3 ] the chiefly class of Hawaii.
The emergence of the disparities can be traced to interactions between the Native Hawaiian population and Western colonizers from both Britain and the U.S. in the 18th century.
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