Origins of the Pacific
The name of Thor Heyerdahl’s raft that he sailed from South America into Polynesia.
What is Kon-Tiki?
The number of verses in the Kumulipo.
What is sixteen?
The highest class in Native Hawaiian society.
What is the akua?
The four main Akua worshiped in pre-contact Hawaiʻi.
Who were Kū, Kāne, Kanaloa, and Lono?
A high priest from Sāmoa who arrived in Hawaiʻi around 1100 AD.
Who was Paʻao?
What Native Hawaiians share with other Polynesians.
What are language, cultural practices, religion, tattoo traditions, and genealogies?
What is created in the first wā.
What is coral and reef-dwelling life, seaweeds and tiny marine organisms, worms and other small invertebrates, and various marine organisms, including types of fish or proto-fish ancestors?
The two paths of power in ancient Hawaiʻi.
What is Kū and Lono?
Those who knew how to locate sites?
What is Papa Kuhikuhi Puʻuone?
The Hawaiian name of the human sacrificial temple.
What is a luakini heiau?
Near Oceania is composed of the following islands.
What are Papua New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, the Admiralty Islands, and the Solomon Islands?
The ones born in the Fifth Wā.
What is larger four-legged animals, terrestrial mammals or mammal-like beings, kalo and Kamapuaʻa?
The meaning of Ka wā mamua.
What is the time in front or before?
The house of fishing.
What is Hale Lawaiʻa?
The ancient Native Hawaiian code of conduct of laws and regulations, covering everything from lifestyle, gender roles, politics, and religion.
What is the kapu system?
A language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Madagascar, Taiwan, and the people of the Pacific.
What is the Austronesian language?
The name of the last chief that the Kumulipo was chanted for.
Who was Kalaninuiʻiamamao, also known as Lonoikamakahiki?
This system separates men and women in the act of eating, with men being laʻa (sacred) and women haumia (defiling) due to menstruation.
What is Aikapu (sacred eating)?
The lowest and most marginalized social class in traditional Native Hawaiian society.
Who were the Kauwā class?
The islands that made up the Northern Kingdom of Ancient Hawaiʻi.
What are Niʻihau, Kauaʻi, Oʻahu, and Molokaʻi?
The island that Mau Piailug was originally from.
What is Satawal, Yap, Micronesia?
The name of the first human ancestor named in the Kumulipo.
Who is Laʻilaʻi?
The first child born to Wākea and Hoʻohōkūkalani.
Who was Hāloa-naka-lau-kapa-lili?
Father (who is nīʻaupiʻo) + Mother (close relative) = ?
What is wohi?
The name of the mother of Kamehameha I.
Who is Kekūʻiapoiwa II?