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Unwritten Literature of Hawaii

Note 259 — XVII.—THE HULA KÁ-ÉKE-ÉKE

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Footnote 259: (return) Pa-ú halaká. An expression sometimes applied to the hand when used as a shield to one’s modesty; here it is said of the ocean (kai) when one’s hody is immersed in it.

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