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Hawaiian singer wearing a muumuu and playing the ukulele The muumuu / ˈ m uː m uː / or muʻumuʻu ( Hawaiian pronunciation: [ˈmuʔuˈmuʔu] ) is a loose dress of Hawaiian origin. [ 1 ] Within the category of fashion known as aloha wear, the muumuu, like the aloha shirt , are often brilliantly colored with floral patterns of Polynesian motifs.
The ʻahu ʻula (feather cape or cloak in the Hawaiian language, literally "red/sacred garment for the upper torso" [1]), [2] and the mahiole (feather helmet) were symbols of the highest rank of the chiefly aliʻi [3] class of ancient Hawaii. There are over 160 examples of this traditional clothing in museums around the world.
"Appendix H: Sovereigns of the Hawaiian Islands". A Brief History of the Hawaiian People. New York: American Book Company. p. 331. OCLC 187412143. Cartwright, Bruce (1930). "Note on Hawaiian Genealogies". Thirty-eighth annual report of the Hawaiian Historical Society for the year 1929. Hawaiian Historical Society. pp. 45– 47. hdl:10524/33.
It’s the humble bandana, that small scrap of fabric that’s come a long way from around a cowboy’s neck, to today’s well-dressed woman’s head, neck or handbag.
A mythical enemy-incinerating kapa (barkcloth) cape, retold as a feather skirt in one telling, occurs in Hawaiian mythology. In the tradition regarding the hero ʻAukelenuiaʻīkū, [c] the hero's grandmother Moʻoinanea who is matriarch of the divine lizards (moʻo akua, or simply moʻo) gives him her severed tail, which transforms into a cape (or kapa lehu, i.e. tapa) that turns enemies into ...
the- PL ahi fire ʻena ʻena red-hot nā ahi {ʻena ʻena} the-PL fire {red-hot} "the red-hot raging fires" Nāhiʻenaʻena was born in 1815 at Keauhou Bay, South Kona, island of Hawaiʻi. Her parents were Kamehameha I and Keōpūolani, the Queen consort. She had two older brothers, hiapo (first born) Liholiho, and Kauikeaouli, who later became Kings Kamehameha II and III. Nāhiʻenaʻena was ...