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

Note 57 — A Lamentation for Kahahana.12

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Kalaninuimakahakumaikalani, a name of Kahahana that may be rendered by separate words. Hakuma is an epithet of ill-looking, angry countenance, applied to clouds when they threaten a storm. The prefix “makolu” intensifies this thought as thick, heavy, ominous. ↑

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