Background
What was the ethnicity of the first settlers in Hawaii?
What is Polynesian?
How did hawaii's tropical climate influence early hawaiians?
What is their diets mainly consisted of seafood and they used resources from the sea to assist their everyday life?
This primary crop and food staple in early Hawaiian culture has a mild and nutty flavor.
What is kalo, or taro root?
What fabric is made by beating and felting fibers of trees and shrubs?
What is kapa?
Were most structures in Early Hawaiian culture permanent or temporary?
What is permanent?
How many years ago did the first humans arrive in Hawaii?
What is 800-1000 years ago?
The average high and low temperatures of Hawaii are these two multiples of 3.
What are 90 and 60?
Cordage used for what by the Kānaka Maoli?
What are ropes and nets?
What did men and women wear that differentiate, and that were the same?
What is men wore loincloths, women wore dresses, and they both wore shawls?
What were the homes called that the early hawaiians live in?
What is Hale?
The first Hawaiians brought puaʻa and niu to the islands. What are those items known as in english?
What is pigs and coconut?
Which Hawaiian island has 8 of the world’s 13 climate sub-zones?
What is the Big Island?
This is regarded as the most dangerous weapon in hawaiian life before metal was introduced.
What is ‘lei o man?’, or the lei of shark’s teeth?
What did early Hawaiian tattoos include?
What is mimicked natural forms, reeds, and often memorialized fallen chiefs, leaders or family members?
What three materials were used to create their houses?
What are ocean-cured ‘ohi‘a logs, sennit, thick layer of pili-grass thatching, and smooth ‘ili ‘ili (small stones)?
What is one thing from Hawaiian culture that is most globally known?
What is hula dancing?
In early hawaiian culture, this sport was so sacred that the people were forbidden to work or wage war during the prime season of it.
What is surfing?
This system of laws that enforced social order was known as what?
What is kanawai?
What are leis, and how were specific ones used for political measures?
What are garlands made out of flower, leaves, bones, and other natural materials?
Early Hawaiians intellectually used these three resources for measurement and leveling items when building houses.
What is the horizon, their fingers and their arms?