Inoa | Name(s)

Lele kawa; Lele ʻopu

Hōʻuluʻulu manaʻo

ʻO ka lele kawa, a iʻole ka lele ʻopu, ka luʻu ʻana i ke kai me ka wāwae mua mai kahi kiʻekiʻe loa me ka loaʻa ʻole o ka pahū nui i ke komo ʻana i ke kai. ʻO ka papa lele kawa kahi e kū ai ke kanaka a mai ia wahi e lele ai. Puni ke aliʻi nui ʻo Kahekili no Maui i ka pāʻani o ka lele kawa. Aia ma Lānaʻi, ma ka pali o Kaunolū, kahi i kapa ʻia ʻo Kawa Lele o Kahekili, no ka lele kawa ʻana ʻo Kahekili ma kēlā wahi ponoʻī. ʻO Kaumaea, Kaʻū kahi kaulana ʻē aʻe no ka lele kawa ʻana.

Description

Lele kawa, also known as lele ʻopu, is act of diving into the ocean feet first from a very high point without making a splash upon entering the water. The papa lele kawa is the diving board from which the person leaping stands and leaps from. Kahekili, the aliʻi nui of Maui, loved the sport of lele kawa. On Lānaʻi, at the cliff of Kaunolū, there is a place called Kawa Lele o Kahekili honoring Kahekili for diving from the specific point. Kaumaea, Kaʻū is another famed location for diving in this way.

ʻŌlelo kuhikuhi

E koho i kēia huaʻōlelo no nā kumuwaiwai pili i ka pāʻani i kapa ʻia ka lele kawa a i ʻole ka lele ʻopu.

Instructions 

Use this term for resources relating to the sport called lele kawa or lele ʻopu.

Moʻokūʻauhau | Genealogy 

Kanaka | Person: Kahekili

ʻĀina | Land/sea: Kaumea (Kaʻū); Kaunolū (Lānaʻi); Kawa Lele o Kahekili (Kaunolū, Lānaʻi)

Hana | Practice: Lele pahū

Lako | Materials + tools / implements: Lau hau

Lawena | Behavior: Lele; Luʻu

Kūkulu | Built environment: Papa lele kawa

Kūmole | Source(s)

Mitchell, Donald D. Kilolani, Oliver C Kinney, and Donald D. Kilolani Mitchell. Hawaiian Games to Play : Descriptions of Traditional Hawaiian Games with Directions for Playing. 2nd ed. Honolulu: Kamehameha Publishing, 2006.

Pukui, Mary Kawena, and Samuel H. (Samuel Hoyt) Elbert. Hawaiian Dictionary : Hawaiian-English, English-Hawaiian. Rev. and enl. Ed. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986.

Hoʻopili ʻia i | Applied to: He moʻolelo no Maui Hikina–Kalialinui i uka a me nā ʻāina o lalo = A cultural-historical study of East Maui–the uplands of Kalialinui, and the lands that lie below, island of Maui; He moʻolelo kaʻao no Kek uhaupiʻo ke koa kaulana o ke au o Kamehameha ka Nui

Mea haku | Created by: Keahiahi Long; Annemarie Paikai