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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
The trunk of the tree, is used for block, they make the blocks for the hats. That's how they get the form of the hat. They make it into a block and that's what we use to weave our hats with.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
The root of the tree is used for cordage. It's also used for medicine, medicinal use. The leaves is what I have here in my hand.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Now this, this leaf here has thorns; thorns on both sides. It's a very thorny tree. Thorns also in the back.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
To begin with, you have to go out and gather these leaves. Take the thorns off, take off this back here. Cut off the head and the tail end, and, roll it up.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
In order to roll it up, you don't roll the back side in, you roll the good side in. And this is the way we roll it up.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Just put it in coils. I brought a coil-- I brought a coil with me to show you how big we can put these coils into. O.K.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
In days of old, we preserved this. You can make a HUGE coil of lauhala, the leaves like this here.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
You could get about 10-15 huge rolls, and you can start and weave whatever you wanna weave with.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Today, I just brought a little basket that I prepared for today. This is our baskets that we weave, you can make HUGE ones, but I like to do basket weaving and [[pause]] mats, floor mats, for house.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
This was handed down by my great-grandmother. I wasn't raised by my mother, I was raised by grandparents as a child.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
My husband was also raised by grandparents as a child. Now we raising a granddaughter,
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that came from my second daughter, and she was also raised as a grand-- a grandchild.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
We legal adopted her, so she's our daughter also. So we trying to pass down our knowledge to our granddaughter.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
I also have a grandson who is half white. He's also very interested in the culture.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
We also makes beautiful fans like this. You can fan yourself. This is what we give out when we have our festival back home.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Everyone who comes to the festival goes home with something to remember that they been to the festival in Hawai'i.
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So you see, preparing the leave isn't that easy.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
It isn't. You have to gather it up, like she said. Then you go, you cut the head and the tail of the leaf.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Then, what you do is, you take off the thorns, like she says.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Then you have to, uh, sort of wipe it to get it clean.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
And then you [[pause]] roll it up, then you gather, then you put like, uh, 25 leaves together then you sort of tie it [[pause]] down.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Then you get a big wooden club like - which we call the hohoa - and we just beat the leaf down until it comes really really soft.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Then we make it strips, like that. Small strips, big strips, medium size strips.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Then what you do is you get your knife, and you start making it soft, so that you can weave. And then, you start weaving.
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