Moa + Hulumoa | Cropped Boxy Top - blue

Sale price Price $80.00 Regular price

Sewn from an all over print design, each piece is unique in its art placement, which will vary from what you see in the photos.

Cropped Boxy Top	Umauma	Lō'ihi
Kuahu	Chest	Back length
XS	50"	18"
S	52"	19"
M	54"	20"
L	56"	21"
XL	58"	22"
2XL	60"	23"
3XL	62"	24"

Please note: garment is true to size, consider sizing up if you want more length. Model is wearing a size medium shirt.

Moa & Hulumoa

I ka wā i hoʻokumu ʻia ai ka lani, ka honua me nā mea like ʻole e piha ai, ua paʻahana loa nā akua a pau, keu hoʻi ʻo Kāne i ka hoʻolewa ʻana i ka lā, ka mahina, nā hōkū a pēlā aku. Na Haumea ke ahi okōko i loko o nā hōkū me ka hoʻopili aku i ia wela i nā mea ola o ka ʻāina a me ke kai. Ua māhele ʻia nā kai a hānau ʻia maila nō hoʻi ka pae ʻāina ʻo Hawaiʻi. Ma hope nō paha o laila ka hele ʻana mai o Kāne a me Kanaloa. Ma kekahi mele, ua kapa ʻia lāua ʻo “nā mākua i ke ao polohiwa.” Na ia ao paha Ke-ala-koʻiʻula a lāua i hiki mai ai mai Tahiti mai, ʻoiai na lāua ke kānāwai Alamuku, ʻo ia hoʻi ke ānuenue. Akā ma kekahi koʻihonua, ʻōlelo ʻia ma ke kai mai lāua. Ma ke ala hea lā, pae maila nō lāua ma ka mokupuni ʻo Hawaiʻi, a ma laila lāua i hoʻokūʻonoʻono ai, ma luna hoʻi o ka puʻu i kapa ʻia ʻo Kaukamōlī. ʻO ko lāua kūkulu akula nō ia iā Hōlanikūhale a me nā pae manuʻu (he mau pae kiʻi paha kēia). ʻO kekahi hana kupanaha a lāua ma laila, ʻo ia hoʻi ka hoʻoponopono ʻana i nā kūlana a me nā ʻano o nā iʻa a pau, pū nō mea nā wai hoʻoluʻu a lāua i kāpalapala aku ai. A laila, hoʻonohonoho akula i kēlā me kēia ma kona wahi e noho ai. Hākoʻi aʻe ka mahalo i kā lāua hana; ʻaʻole hoʻi o kana mai ka nani o nā iʻa Hawaiʻi. Helu ʻia ka moa i loko o laila me kona kino kikiko a nani miomio. Wahi a nā kūpuna, ʻo ke aka o Kanaloa ka ʻili ʻōniʻo i puni i ka ʻeleʻele, a ʻike ʻia nō ka pilina o ia ʻōlelo i ua wahi iʻa noʻenoʻe nei. Ua lilo paha nā iʻa i mea hoʻoulu i ka manaʻo o ka poʻe hana kapa, ʻoiai he kāpalapala a he hoʻonoʻenoʻe kā lākou hana kekahi.

The forests and the oceans of Hawaiʻi teem with life. There are well over a thousand species of fish that occur in our islands and 20% of the reef fish are endemic. Along with the many delicious species of reef fish—a critical part of the Hawaiʻi diet—there are a handful of species that seem mostly decorative. One of these is the moa fish (aka pahu, spotted boxfish, Ostracion meleagris). A mostly peaceful reef dweller that typically grows up to six inches, the moa fish feeds on limu and tiny marine organisms. The boxy shape of its body is formed by fused scales and it’s beautifully covered in small dots. Moa color schemes and patterns were gifted by Kāne and Kanaloa, who gave all the fish their colors and markings. This account inspired the ʻōlelo for this design: Kikiko ʻia i ka nani o ka lipo - Marked in the beauty of the depths. Not just for the ocean, the term lipo in ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi also extends to the depths of the forest, the home of the other species featured here: hulumoa (aka kaumahana, Korthalsella latissima, or Hawaiʻi mistletoe). This herbaceous, parasitic plant grows on host trees (lama, koaiʻa, ʻolopua, kōpiko, ʻōhiʻa, koa). It has a “highly reduced” form (well under a foot tall) and is mostly flattened stems. At the nodes in the stems it bears clusters of tiny, also reduced flowers that give it the appearance of having spots as well. Linked in name and form, these two species may not be as large and well known as other Hawaiʻi organisms, but they play their own important roles in the ecosystems of sea and land; humble kūpuna in the wider ʻohana of life.

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