Inoa | Name(s)

Kūkulu hale

Hōʻuluʻulu manaʻo

ʻO ke kūkulu ʻana i ka hale, he hana ia e pale ai ke kanaka i ke anu, ka ua, ka lā a me ka wela. No ke kūkulu ʻana i ka hale, piʻi ke kanaka i ka nāhelehele a kua lāʻau me ke koʻi pōhaku. ʻOkoʻa ka lōʻihi o nā lāʻau i koho ʻia no nā māhele ʻokoʻa i pono ai ke kūkulu ʻana. Kūkulu ʻia nā pou o ka hale me ke kaula e hoʻopaʻa ai i nā pou. Ako ʻia ka hale i pili paha, lāʻī paha, a lau kō paha a paʻa. Hana ʻia ka puka a me ka pā lāʻau a laila hiki mai ke kahuna pule i mea e pule ai no ka hale. Pēlā ke ʻano o ke kūkulu hale o ka wā kahiko.

Description

House construction was done to protect people from the environmental elements. Regarding the building of a house, the builder would cut down trees in the uplands appropriate in size to the desired house size using a koʻi pōhaku. The poles were constructed and secured with rope. The house was then thatched with pili, lāʻī, or sugarcane leaf. The doorway and fence was built and the kahuna pule was asked to come and bless the house. This was how houses were constructed traditionally.

ʻŌlelo kuhikuhi

E koho i kēia huaʻōlelo no nā kumuwaiwai pili i ka ʻoihana kūkulu hale.

Instructions 

Use for resources regarding traditional house construction.

Hana | Practice: Hana koʻi

Lako | Materials + tools / implements: Koʻi pōhaku; Kaula; Pou

Kūlana | Title/rank: Kahuna pule

Kūmole | Source(s)

Malo, Davida, Jeffrey Paul Lyon, Charles Langlas, and Davida Malo. The Moʻolelo Hawaiʻi of Davida Malo..Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2020.

Hoʻopili ʻia i | Applied to: “Kūkulu Hale in Hāna, east maui: reviving traditional Hawaiian house and heiau building” in Detours, a decolonial guide to Hawaiʻi; “Building a hale” in The ancient Hawaiians: who were they? how did they live?

Mea haku | Created by: Keahiahi Long; Annemarie Paikai