TRADITIONAL HAWAIIAN STONEWORK AND HOW TO DO IT 

Great video. Very informative. Thank you!

Thank You for sharing Your stories with us. One thing I take away from this, is taking the time things need to be done the best possible way. Another thing that You show us, is to truely experience and embrace what we are doing instead of shust getting work done and walk away.

Thank you, thank you so much for this informative lecture. Here in Central Vietnam, the native people are Austronesians, but they have a long, long history of working with iron and ceramic. They gained the knowledge from trading with other ethnics, and where they live there is plenty of clay and ore. It is so fascinating to see how the Hawaiian material culture developed without those natural resources. But I have seen the stone tools of their distant ancestors. The knapping was cruder than what the Hawaiians did, but next to the tools made from obsidian and quartz, archaelogists even found some knives made from meteor shards. Anyway, thank you once again, and hope to see more lectures from you.

Thank you so much I love your video. I live in Kekaha Kauai and Haoli. I have found several rounded lava stones and searching why someone would make them. Thank you so much I make grinders and want to make a bowl and platter. Mahalo nui 🙏

Nice, impressive. Thank you for thinking of us!

good content! all meat no bs aloha fr lanai! good on for replying to comments

Thankyou for your time, and your knowledge. These videos of yours are fascinating. Best wishes from Scotland. 👍🇬🇧

I am so glad I found this channel. Your knowledge and expertise is astounding! I am in absolute awe that you were able to make a perfectly shaped pohaku ku'i 'ai in 21 hours! I would love to see your methods for sussing out the unique shape of that pohaku. Mahalo nui for sharing this!

Aloha mahalo for this video from Kāne'ohe

Love it

Wonderful presentation, mahalo! I was wondering if you would have any pictures of the adze blades you have made or have access to against a scale bar or grid that you would be able to share, I am a flint knapper (a hobby) studying the technology and would love to have access to more examples than are presented in the Te Rangi Hiroa book. While I live in North America I studied ethnobotany at UH Manoa and it is so nice to see Hawaiian culture better represented on RU-vid! Thanks either way, and thanks again for the video!

Mahalo nui iā 'oe no ka hā'awi 'ana i kou 'ike Unko. 🙏🏼🤙🏼

Love the title card!

There are many interesting things that can be done with rock. For example, if you were to make cement, you can mix charcoal with milk and blend it really good. When it sets, there will be a transition line where the heavy and the light material separates. You drain the top off and there will be a thin layer of graphene infused milk. You mix this milk in with your cement and it makes the cement 30% stronger. Now, you can take that a step further and make the cement self healing by introducing the Scoby Bacteria to the cement. This means that if the cement cracks, the Scoby bacteria that is infused into the cement will cause the cement to recrystallize and fill the gaps/cracks with mineral. Apparently this also increases the strength of the cement. Scoby is interesting because you can stretch it out into a jelly like canvas and as soon as you apply alcohol to it, it will change into a material like leather which you can use for making lashings/rope/clothing/etc. If I was to make a sling, I would make the projectiles out of hardened cement so that I can make sure that they have an ideal weight distribution.

Aloha mai e Ka'imiloa. I think of you every time I pass your house by Honoka'a where I took a Ipu Heke class from you. I'm glad that I found you. Are you also growing Hawaiian Ipu there? KEALOHA from Kohala, Hi.

Aloha Uncle- this is invaluable information to share your knowledge as a mea hana pōhaku kālai ikaika kahuna. I am on the big island, my family home is about a thousand feet from Ahu’aila’au, and have been here for about the last 20 years, long before Ahu’aila’au rose up from the ground below. I am very interested to hear you would be willing to teach me, or find a mea hana pōhaku kālai ikaika as a mentor in traditional practices. I have done a bit of research into this topic, as a lava guide in kalapana for a number of years, I became very interested in this area of cultural history and practice.

Aloha from Maui 😊

Aloha Kumu Kane one question what kind of beautiful lay you have is pika shells or smoothed pohaku

Rock and stone!

Hello, do you sell any ulu maika / discoidals that you have made?

Aloha Uncle, I have made many umeke pohaku, but I cheat. I use an angle grinder, diamond edge cutting disk. I find my pohaku along North Hilo shores. Made many successful bowls, sold well. Do you have an email address? Can send photos of what I have made.

Mahalo piha