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© Ellen Homontowski
2001-2011
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Place of Refuge
Pu'uhonua O Honaunau
Sanctuary for those who have broken kapu (the law).
*Click photos to enlarge*
~ 2001 ~
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Halau: ti leave hung and used to drive fish into the shallows (hukilau method) | Ki'i (wooden images) watching over Hale o Keawe (temple and mausoleum) |
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Heleipalala (springwater and saltwater--held food fish to be eaten) | Noni fruit on the Indian Mulberry tree |
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Heleipalala (springwater and saltwater--held food fish to be eaten) | Ki'i and tree molds |
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Pu'uhonua shore | Pu'uhonua point |
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~ 2009 ~
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You will see similar images as in 2001 above, but it was fun capturing them again with a new & improved camera :) |
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Noni fruit (left); tree impression in the lava rock (right) |
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