Kauhale O HanaThis Kauhale O Hana consists of four authentic Hawaiian hale; a living hale, a meeting hale, a cooking hale, and a canoe building/storage hale. The surrounding walls and terraces are built in a fashion echoing the highly refined agrarian techniques of Hana`s earliest settlers, with appropriate food and medicinal plans selected for their historic relevance. | 
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| Old Historic Hana CourthouseOld Historic Hana Lockup (Jailhouse) |
| Hale Waiwai O Hana | 
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The Hana Cultural Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of the history of Hana through artifact, documents, photographs, etc. Our organization, museum, and Hawaiian Village project are financed by dues and donations.
Hawaiian Quilts: The main design of the quilt is cut from on piece of fabric after it has been folded into eight equal parts. The design is appliqued to the background fabric by hand, and quilted by hand. One quilt may take months or years to make.
Poi Boards: The cooked taro root is pounded into poi on a concave board hewn from one log. Poi was the main food staple of the early Hawaiians. Stone poi pounders were used to pound the poi into the proper consistency.
Phallic Stone: A fertility symbol
| Kamuela (Samuel) Kalalau: Kalalau, a respected member of the Hana Community, sailed as crew on the double hulled sailing canoe, Hokulea, to Tahiti in the mid 1970`s. The wood is Kou and was carved by Coila I Eade. | 
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| Pekelo (Peter) Konohia: Pekelo has raised his family in Hana and is pure Hawaiian. The wood is Milo and came from the Hana area. It was carved by Coila I. Eade. |
Lomilomi Stick: This hooks over the shoulder so that the Hawaiians could give themselves a back rub.
Brooms: Made of the spine of the coconut frond.
Kapa: Made by pounding strips of wauke or paper mulberry bark that has first been soaked in water. It was pounded thin with a round beater until the fibers were meshed together, then finished with a carved kapa beater, that left watermark patterns. The designs were painted on with coloring from plants.
Stone Mortars, Pestles, & Adzes: These were chipped from different types of stones and sharpened with a whetting stone. The tools to make these artifacts were also stone as there was no metal.
Fish Hooks: Made of shell, bone or tusks of wild pigs until the introduction of metal by the first visitors to the islands. The cord was woven of olona fibers and were very strong.
Coconut Grater: Half a cracked ripe coconut was held against the serrated blade by a person seated a straddle on the wooden base, to grate the coconut for use in cooking or to make coconut milk.
Wooden and Natural Gourd Bowls: These were the usual utensils of the Hawaiian kitchen. Their main diet consisted of poi, fish, sweet potato, breadfruit, and coconut.
Stone Lamps: Lamps were carved from stone in order to be fireproof. Kukui nut meat was used for fuel. The oil was extracted from the nut meat.
Stone Akua: The Akua stone is on loan to our museum and is placed where it can look out to the ocean. It is a rare artifact.
A`i`Ai: A very special pohaku (stone) donated by Inez Ashdown of Maui. He has perfect little ears, nose, mouth, and eyes. He was given to Mrs. Ashdown by Mr. & Mrs. Adam Gross in Lahaina in 1936.
Ulumaika: Stones were rolled on their edge and bowled between two sticks in a Hawaiian Game.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask and we will answer them if we can.
E-mail us at hccm@aloha.net.
Aloha...
