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