HWST 107: Exam 1 Study Guide/58
Complete Q’s and A’s
Lapita Pottery - -Pieces found throughout the pacific and southeast Asia.
o Specific patterns and meanings.
-Epeli Hauʻofa - -Wrote our Sea of Islands
(Also Professor at UH.)
-Sea of Islands - -...
-Haloanaka - -Kalo fetus. All Hawaiians descend from him.
Son of Wakea and Ho′ohokukalani.
Died and was buried in the ground.
-Kameʻeleihiwa - -Hawaiian historian who wrote places of worship
(Kamakua).
Wrote Tradition Hawaiian Metaphors.
-Papahānaumoku - -Story of the birthing of the island embedded into this
chant.
-Wākea - -Sky father.
Islands were made by the hands of Wakea himself
Married to Papa with three children
Sleeps with daughter, Ho'okokukalani, and produces two children
-Hoʻohōkūkalani - -Papa and Wākeaʻs third child. (Daughter that Papa has
sex with).
Incest
-Mālama ʻĀina - -Take care of the land.
Work for the land and it will work for you
-ʻAikapu - -Defined Hawaiian societies for generations. It was a gender
ordering of society.
• Separate eating spaces.
• Foods ordered by male and female akua.
o Male: Puaʻa (pigs). Wāhine: Certain variety of bananas, or fish that were
Kapu to females.
-Niʻaupiʻo - -Chiefly Incest.
-Kumulipo - -Foundation, origin.
, The chant to honor Kalani-Nui-A-Mana'o and the creation of life.
A chant in the Hawaiian language telling a creation story- a genealogy of the
members of Hawaiian royalty
-Moʻokūʻauhau - -Genealogy
-Moʻolelo - -3 scholars from the 19th century.
Oral histories (Story)
-Aliʻi - -Never had much interactions with commoners. Carries of
genealogies, and collectively identified with. Had relationships with the
kahunaʻs, and had access to them.
Responsibility: To make sure the gods, people, government, and land are
working in balance/ prosperous.
-Makaʻāinanana - -Fisherman, weavers, lei makers, implement makers,
foods, arts, made use of the resources, and carvers.
Produced everything.
-Konohiki - -Aspect of Hawaiian society. Lower ranking aliʻi. Served as an in
between with the commoners and royal aliʻi. Theyʻre closer to the land, and
operations of a certain district, culture, area, landscape, and people.
Responsibility: Manage the land of their areas. Sometimes they changed,
rotated, or came from the makaʻainana.
Enough rank to communicate with the aliʻi nui without offending the kapu.
-Kahuna - -Experts in particular things (Clouds, stars, skys, medicine,
political strategists, landscape, and so forth). Knowledge wells.
If you laid eyes on one, you could die.
-Nainoa Thompson - -Master navigator.
Sighted the Southern Cross at the direction of 'Aina.
-Purposeful navigation theory - -Opposite of drift theory; they knew what
they were doing, it was quite sophisticated and intelligent. They brought
plants, and women and children and dogs....it was on purpose
-Drift theory - -Thor Heyerdahl: Tested that no skills were necessary
whatsoever, and said that you just need to get a boat, and you'll navigate
yourself across the Pacific.
Proved that it's possible to drift from Peru to the Pacific Islands.
-Colonialism - -The policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political
control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting.
The changing of culture. cultures change constantly.
Complete Q’s and A’s
Lapita Pottery - -Pieces found throughout the pacific and southeast Asia.
o Specific patterns and meanings.
-Epeli Hauʻofa - -Wrote our Sea of Islands
(Also Professor at UH.)
-Sea of Islands - -...
-Haloanaka - -Kalo fetus. All Hawaiians descend from him.
Son of Wakea and Ho′ohokukalani.
Died and was buried in the ground.
-Kameʻeleihiwa - -Hawaiian historian who wrote places of worship
(Kamakua).
Wrote Tradition Hawaiian Metaphors.
-Papahānaumoku - -Story of the birthing of the island embedded into this
chant.
-Wākea - -Sky father.
Islands were made by the hands of Wakea himself
Married to Papa with three children
Sleeps with daughter, Ho'okokukalani, and produces two children
-Hoʻohōkūkalani - -Papa and Wākeaʻs third child. (Daughter that Papa has
sex with).
Incest
-Mālama ʻĀina - -Take care of the land.
Work for the land and it will work for you
-ʻAikapu - -Defined Hawaiian societies for generations. It was a gender
ordering of society.
• Separate eating spaces.
• Foods ordered by male and female akua.
o Male: Puaʻa (pigs). Wāhine: Certain variety of bananas, or fish that were
Kapu to females.
-Niʻaupiʻo - -Chiefly Incest.
-Kumulipo - -Foundation, origin.
, The chant to honor Kalani-Nui-A-Mana'o and the creation of life.
A chant in the Hawaiian language telling a creation story- a genealogy of the
members of Hawaiian royalty
-Moʻokūʻauhau - -Genealogy
-Moʻolelo - -3 scholars from the 19th century.
Oral histories (Story)
-Aliʻi - -Never had much interactions with commoners. Carries of
genealogies, and collectively identified with. Had relationships with the
kahunaʻs, and had access to them.
Responsibility: To make sure the gods, people, government, and land are
working in balance/ prosperous.
-Makaʻāinanana - -Fisherman, weavers, lei makers, implement makers,
foods, arts, made use of the resources, and carvers.
Produced everything.
-Konohiki - -Aspect of Hawaiian society. Lower ranking aliʻi. Served as an in
between with the commoners and royal aliʻi. Theyʻre closer to the land, and
operations of a certain district, culture, area, landscape, and people.
Responsibility: Manage the land of their areas. Sometimes they changed,
rotated, or came from the makaʻainana.
Enough rank to communicate with the aliʻi nui without offending the kapu.
-Kahuna - -Experts in particular things (Clouds, stars, skys, medicine,
political strategists, landscape, and so forth). Knowledge wells.
If you laid eyes on one, you could die.
-Nainoa Thompson - -Master navigator.
Sighted the Southern Cross at the direction of 'Aina.
-Purposeful navigation theory - -Opposite of drift theory; they knew what
they were doing, it was quite sophisticated and intelligent. They brought
plants, and women and children and dogs....it was on purpose
-Drift theory - -Thor Heyerdahl: Tested that no skills were necessary
whatsoever, and said that you just need to get a boat, and you'll navigate
yourself across the Pacific.
Proved that it's possible to drift from Peru to the Pacific Islands.
-Colonialism - -The policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political
control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting.
The changing of culture. cultures change constantly.
