Farm Family - Person Sheet
NameCharles Moke William KANUI 1132, Step G Grandfather, M
ResidenceWaihee, Maui1132
Spouses
ResidenceWaihee, Maui1132
Death5 Dec 1919, Lahaina, Maui, Territory of Hawaii1132,135 Age: 70
BurialLahaina, Maui, Territory of Hawaii
MemoWainee church
Lat/Long*20.869232, -156.673332887
CemeteryWaine’e Church; a.k.a. Waiola Congregational Church, 535 Wainee St., Lahaina, Maui, 808.661.4349135,1141
Notes for Pauelua Kanae Keawewahinekaili (Spouse 1)
-Mrs. C.M.W. Kanui, Inscription: “Kuu Wahine Aloha”.
1186 Means "My Beloved Wife".
1187-The Waine'e Church was built between 1828 and 1832 for the Protestant Mission. It was the first stone church in the islands and could seat 3,000 church-goers. It was rebuilt four times due to windstorms and fires - the last time was in 1953. Today the church is called Waiola Church, or "water of life".
The cemetery is the final resting place of Hawaiian Ali'i (royalty), missionaries, seamen and commoners. A breadfruit tree, located in the churchyard, was planted in the days of Chief Kakaalanaeo.
1146-Grave: Left-to-right, Alfred, Fannie, and Pauelua’s Graves
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Pendant (lei niho palaoa). (big niho ʻalapaina1188)
Carved - from a whale tooth - in the shape of a stylized hook with a fine finish, the lower end of the shank pierced with an irregular squarish hole.
A clean break across the hole, both parts glued together. Colour: a soft pale to golden brown.
This pendant of a shape peculiar to Hawaii would have been suspended by hair cordage. Its size, the way the suspension hole is made, its general smoothness and wear attest to its Contact or slightly Pre-Contact dating. When Cook arrived, only small specimens like it, some even tinier, were in use, sometimes made of shell, coral, wood or stone since cachalot ivory was extremely rare.
After the first contacts, ivory pendants became more common, though of much larger size, as marine ivory from whalers and traders was available in quantity. Large hooks were fashioned and worn suspended by coils of human hair consisting of eight-ply square braids ending in cords of olona for tying behind the wearer's neck.
Whale ivory pendants, whether on Hawaii or other Polynesian islands, were ornaments of the nobility. Only the ali'i, the chieftains or ruling class and certain high-ranking women wore these as symbols of their mana and rank.
The meaning or significance of the shape is uncertain; the hook element may depict a protruding stylized tongue. Some think that it represents the "chin-mouth-tongue" complex or the overhanging brow of certain 'aumakua type sculptures. Others consider that upside down it may be the stylization of a chieftain's head, or we may simply be faced with the embodiment of the mana of an ancestor. 1189