Canoe plants
Noni
- medicinal
'awapuhi: Shampoo ginger
- used in shampoos
Polynesians were skilled navigators and arrived in Hawaii via the
) Islands
Ko: Sugar canes
- Medicine/flavor
Arrowroot/Pia
- Where Haupia comes from - starchy
Mai'a: Banana
- created different varieties - Associated w/ Kanaloa and wmn couldn't eat it
Ape "giant taro/elephants ear"
- famine food/ not state food
'Uala Sweet potato
- grows in hot/dry environments - traced from 3 voyages with different names
Ti/Ki
- leaves in medicine/salve band aid - beer fermentation
Kukui: candlenut tree
- oily for fire
Kalo, Taro
- responsible for calories - related to Haloa naka - leaves attached in middle
'olena: Tumeric
- spice
'ulu: Breadfruit
- sticky latex - starchy
Sweet potato vs. Yams
- sweet potato: underground stem - yam: root
Wauke: Paper Mulberry
- used for paper
Canoe plants used for (3)
1. Food 2. Medicine 3. Clothes
Animals brought over (4)
1. Rat 2. Chicken 3. Pig 4. Dog
Voyaging revitalized w/
Hokulea and HIkianalia replicated voyages
Lapita people voyaged from canoes west to
Marquesas Islands
Most canoe plants are from
New Guniea
'Awa, Kava
Pepper dug for roots and overall numb feeling
Polynesians brought numerous _________ and ____________ to survive
plants animals
Taro Mound
submerged in water