Polynesian Voyaging
This type of island sits on top of volcanic seamounts that rise from the ocean floor. They may be high, low, or just above sea level.
What are the Oceanic Islands?
The name of Thor Heyerdahl’s raft that he sailed to South America.
What is Kon-Tiki?
A genealogical chant showing the moʻokūʻauhau (genealogy) of the kanaka maoli.
What is the Kumulipo?
The class of humans who are closest to being divine and godlike.
What is the Mōʻi/Aliʻi Nui?
The four main Akua worshipped in pre-contact Hawaiʻi.
Who are Kāne, Kanaloa, Kū, and Lono?
The name of the ethnic group that led the large-scale migration into the Pacific.
Who are the Austronesians?
The name of the navigator who taught the traditional way of voyaging to the Hawaiians and led the Hōkūleʻa on her maiden voyage.
Who is Mau Piailug?
Papa and Wākea's first human daughter.
Who is Hoʻohōkūkalani?
The Hawaiian translation of Ka wā mamua.
What is the time in front or before?
The experts in many fields, such as genealogists and canoe builders.
Who are Kāhuna Wale?
The name of the red-orange colored pottery that is stamped with toothed implements in a decorative style that emerged in the Bismarcks.
What is the Lapita pottery?
The similarities between Hawaiians and other Polynesian peoples.
What is language, cultural practices, religion, tattoo traditions, and genealogies?
The Hawaiian name for the 16 time periods, with eight corresponding to the time in darkness and eight to the time in light.
What are wā?
When the child's Father is nīʻaupiʻo, and the Mother is a close relative.
What is Wohi?
The lowest-ranked of the aliʻi class.
What is Aliʻi Noanoa/Konohiki?
The islands that make up Near Oceania.
What are Papua New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, the Admiralty Islands, and the Solomon Islands?
The island that Mau Piailug was originally from.
What is Satawal, Yap?
The system that separates men and women in the act of eating, with men being laʻa (sacred) and women haumia (defiling) due to menstruation.
What is the ‘Aikapu System?
The two paths to power in ancient Hawaiʻi.
What is Kū and Lono?
A secret chiefly line on Oʻahu who is sought out if no other chief is available.
Who is Lō?
A language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Madagascar, Taiwan, and the Pacific.
What is the Austronesian family/languages?
The New Zealand historian who wrote several books on Thor Heyerdahl’s theories in the 1960s.
Who is Andrew Sharp?
The corm of the kalo is referred to as such.
What is the ʻohā?
Those who knew how to locate sites.
What is Papa Kuhikuhi Puʻuone?
A house that women remained in during their menstrual period.
What is Hale Peʻa?