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Fornander collection of Hawaiian antiquities and folk-lore, Volume 2 (of 3)

Note 276 — CONTENTS. (continued 5)

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When the taro is matured, the fainting spirit of hunger passes away from the planter. The wife and children, accustomed to pulling the taro for food, take the matured ones and sufficient young ones (oha), leaving the rest of young ohas in the hole. The remaining young ones are called by them the aae,276 which means a field or patch of young taro. When the first taro is taken out then the invoking of the god is indulged in, thus:

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