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Hoe Leiomano - Paddle, shark tooth weapon; Ihe - Short spear with barbed edges or straight point (up to 9 ft or 2.7 m staff) Kaʻane - Cuerda (strangling cord) Koʻokoʻo - Staffs (long and short) Koʻokoʻo Loa (6 ft or 1.8 m staff) Koʻokoʻo Pōkole (4 ft or 1.2 m staff) Kuʻekuʻe Lima Leiomanō - Knuckle duster weapon; Leiomanō - Shark ...
The word "leiomano" is derived from the Hawaiian language and may originate from lei o manō, meaning "a shark's lei." [2] The weapon resembles a thick ping-pong paddle inset with shark teeth, typically from the tiger shark. These teeth are placed into grooves in the club and sewn into place.
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.
Shark teeth are among the quintessential items found in almost Grand Strand gift shop. But they’re also ripe for the picking along the beach — if you know where to look.
This early art practice includes wood carvings, petroglyphs, kākau (Hawaiian tattooing), kapa (barkcloth; called kapa in Hawaiian, and tapa elsewhere in the Pacific), kapa kilohana (decorated barkcloth), ipu pā wehe (decorated gourds), kāhili (featherwork), lauhala weaving (weaving, plait, or braiding leaves), and leiomano (shark-tooth ...
The really dark shark teeth, Dunn said, are millions of years old and more commonly found. The lighter teeth, beige or pearly in color, fell out more recently. Eventually, once they’ve broken ...
Fort DeRussy Beach, 1959. The U.S. Army Museum of Hawaiʻi is housed inside Battery Randolph, a former coastal artillery battery. Battery Randolph was constructed in 1911 to defend Honolulu Harbor on Oahu from attack, and was equipped with two 14-inch guns on disappearing carriages, with a range of about 40,000 yards (37 km). [6]
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