Aʻeaʻe mōhala i luna o ke kukui. Streaks of silvery gray showing on the candlenut tree [said of a graying person]. Kii: Kuialuaopuna The kukui trees, can reach over 100 feet tall, creating thick dark growths in the lower mountains and damp gulches. The other term used is kuikui or tuitui, as this is from an older time. Tuitui is still a term used on Kauai, Oahu, Niihau and many other islands of Polynesia for this famous tree of Molokai. Tuitui was brought to Hawaii by older migrations from Te...

Kii: Leilehua Yuen, Kahele Hawaii Kava in Hawai Volume 57 1948 > Volume 57, No. 2 > Margaret Titcomb, pg 106-109 https://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document//Volume_57_1948/Volume_57%2C_No._2/Kava_in_Hawaii%2C_by_Margaret_Titcomb%2C_p_105-171/p1 The study of the 'awa  custom is of interest because it was cultivated in Polynesia wherever it could be grown and its use was of significance. Indeed its presence is an indication of Polynesian influence, and 'awa  vies with the betel nut of Melanesia in...

HAWAIIAN MYTHOLOGY Martha Beckwith UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII PRESS HONOLULU pgs. 111-117 LEGEND OF KALAIPAHOA   kii: Bishop museum Kamakau version. A man of Molokai named Kane-ia-kama (Kane-a-Kama) joins a gambling game at Hale-lono, the gambling place at Ka-lua-koi, and wins the stakes. On his way home, he gambles again at the famous gambling place on Maunaloa and loses everything he has except his bones, which he is afraid to stake. That night, the god Kane-i-kaulana-ula (Kane in the red flush...