Grassroots Kaua'i: manufacturing an outrigger canoe
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- čas přidán 31. 10. 2007
- A handmade koa canoe, believed to be the first constructed on Kaua'i in nearly two centuries, has set sail after a fervent four months of labor by a group of native Hawaiians and some expert canoe builders from Ifilik, an atoll in Micronesia.
The idea came from Santos Wichimai of Anahola, an expert canoe builder who missed his home island of Ifilik and wanted to share its culture with Kauaians.
Three men from the Micronesian atoll came to Kaua'i to work on the project, and once a full group was assembled, they passed up power tools, constructing handmade adzes to remove the bark and gouge away at the wood. Following ancient Polynesian practice, they used their fingers, hands, arms, feet and legs for measurement. String made from coconut husks helped hold the craft together.
And after months of six-days-a-week work, the job was done, and the 16-foot-long outrigger canoe was launched at Hanalei Bay.
It's the first handmade koa canoe built here since the death of King Kaumuali'i in 1824 and thanks to Rachel Pa we had the honor to take a ride with it.
The canoe being built in this short documentary is the second one and it won't be the last...
To get more background information or if you want to support the Grassroots project on Kaua'i please write an e-mail to
hawaiian@eyelense.com
Mahalo for the support with their music to Sudden Rush from Hilo
www.myspace.com/realrush
Peace and greetings to Robert Pa and his family, to Peter, Malia and everybody who's with them from Elke, Kai, Phillip, Sebastian and Thomas
Aloha from Vancouver Canada, from a first nations canoe builder and paddler. I feel his point of view. I love what your doing with the culture. keep it strong.
I totally support your views, and blending them with the canoe makes sense. Some objects have deep spiritual ties with a culture and can't be separated into just "things", outrigger canoes, birch bark canoes, bows,.... some get it, some don't.
Okay brudda. I'm not condoning the current situation. But, if you can do ANYTHING to save any part of Hawaiin culture, of which you seem to know more about and are more strongly connected, then my heart beats with yours. May you be successful beyond your wildest expectations. I will keep YOU and YOUR efforts in my prayers.
Aloha,
Biggy
I stayed in a Bed & Breakfast in Kapa'a so that when I live in a foreign land I can feel the aloha of the people. When I visited Kaua'i I was a guest of the Hanalei OCC. I was preparing for the Queen Lilio Race on Kona. My outrigger club in Calif taught me the ways and customs of the canoe and Hawaiian people well. I made great friends with Waimeaa OCC and the club on the Wailua River. Mahalo for your powerful message.
If you could build a canoe the way people hundred years ago built using materials, tools, design and techniques that canoe might be one of the most advanced canoe of the time
good on you bro , spirit to you , live the truth. blessings from New zealand
I have been visiting Hawaii since I was a child.REAL Polynesian culture is so rich with life and love for land.I'd love to learn the true heritage of Indigenous culture of Hawaii.I love how life surrounds the ohana in Kauai and how the a'ina stays untouched compared to many of the other islands.I am just a haole, but I respect everything in Hawaii,especially the people.The land is rightfully yours.So I always visit with humility and respect.Great video to spread awareness of the true Hawaii.
My appologies sistah, I really had no idea. And, this will make it easier to ask for your success! The Gods would think me daft for praying for a brudda when you be a sistah! Thank you for clearing this up for the Biggy.
Aloha
Yes ... this is the work of unsung heros .... I will do my best to help and spread this message. I will be in touch with you. I have also put this on various sites of mine.
Mahalo Nui Loa
Ras
fantastic efforts ... wicked documentary
thank you so much !
ras
Thank you for your hard work and efforts to preserve the ancient ways. It is good to keep old traditions of canoe building alive (also language and other traditions). At the same time the modern world is continuing to race forward. Modern tools and modern boat building materials are far superior to most aspects of the old ways. Graphite and fiberglass canoes are lighter, stronger and faster then core wood canoes. Think about it. Don't you think that ancient people would have loved to have gotten their hands on a modern canoe building materials tools and knowhow? Anyway, keep up the great work! I love it!
Aloha-
Hawaiians may think that there is little chance due to the dwindling numbers, but fret not. I am haole , but money is not my god. I have aloha in my soul and will stand beside those who wish to bring back the traditions of days not yet lost. I dream of visiting Kauai and hope to join the movement of good will and freedom. End Corporate Control!
right thoughts. Respect the man !!
That canoe is great, o ka 'aina
Nice Waka bro.
MAHALO KE AKUA FOR SHOWING THE WAY !
great work!
nice documentation
blessings&respect
Sara
@speedyboh
there are some canoe festivities going on in Yap, you can ask santos about it, he might have some videos about it.
Our age is retrospective. We live in the sepluchers of our forefathers.
nice canoe,great tools, beautiful heritage.
Enough with the whining about cultural oppression. You are as much a part of the transcendence from the old ways- you English speaking "Americans".
Embrace your new situation and become a member of the present too.
Everybody has a "conquerer heritage".
Aloha
Much aloha . Our traditional canoes we are doing with adze as well. But using California Redwood and Cedar. Our family is Hawaiian and Native American. Wa'a , 'iako, ama.All traditional ( the rigging we would use modern rope and cordage)
Keep fighting for the aina!!!
E pili mau na pomaika 'i ia 'oe
IF THERES EVER A WILL, THERES A WAY!
Great film. I have it on my MaoliWorld page.
Mahalo nui. :)
@Malandro9999 lili'uokalani relented to a superpower,you think she had a choice? oh wait,she did have a choice, give Hawaii over peacefully or go to war and lose Hawaii violently. So you see,she didnt "sell out" her people like Metallica selling out on metal(what a comparison huh?)she evaluated the entire situation and acted accordingly and she did it with a very heavy heart. I mean,she spent the better part of her life thereafter imprisoned,how is that selling out?
I didn't say that it was "okay" now did I? My statement to you was not a lame excuse either, but an explanation of historical fact. I don't accept your dismal premise about greedy white people, you generalize about racism. I did not perpetrate any lies or untruths now did I? You are associating your own misconceptions and projections onto me, Your diatribe takes away from your beautiful work. Your point of pwer is in your present. Your heritage is "now".
Aloha