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Knots on the Waʻa

Videos created by the students of Hālau Kū Māna Public Charter School class of 2016.  
Figure-8 Knot: HKM Papa Waʻa vide0 from ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vArQz2Rdf_U
Bowline Knot QR.m video from 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfhUbxKni3o&t=8s
Square Knot:  HKM Papa Waʻa video from 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG4mwMZolvQ
Bowline on a Pole:  HKM Papa Waʻa video from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V0Z44j6pUE
Bowline on a Bight: HKM Papa Waʻa video from 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24lAMZEU3oY
Clove Hitch:  HKM Papa Waʻa video from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur7ntHKZD6w
Cleat Hitch:  HKM Papa Waʻa video from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbYxpSS5FDo

Read about the kupua Kana, the kaula (rope) grandson of Uli. 


Taken from Hawaiian Legends by William Hyde Rice published by Bernice P. Bishop Museum in 1923 (Bulletin 3)
moolelo_o_kana.pdf
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Read Poem by ʻImaikalani Kalahele, called "Make Rope"

Taken from Hāpai nā Leo edited by Bill Teter published by Curriculum Research and Development Group, University of Hawaiʻi, 2010.
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    • Kaula and Knots
    • Parts of the Waʻa
  • Books
    • Ka Moʻokūʻauhau o Kānehūnāmoku
    • ʻUʻuku Ka Hana,
​ʻUʻuku Ka Loaʻa
    • ʻO Ka Ipu Ka Honua
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