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Ancient Polynesians Were Master Navigators
Fifty years ago the common belief about how Polynesians arrived on the Hawaiian islands was that it was accidental, a group of men and women lost at sea who survived drifting over 4,000 miles to land on the small island of Kauai. But Hawaiian oral history told a different story of great navigators using stars and other natural signals to guide them to these islands. And some of the navigating chants were still remembered and sung.
 
In the late 1960’s the artist Herb Kane and others who supported this idea began to organize an eventually helped to build a replica of those ancient Polynesian voyaging canoes. The goal was to repeat the imagined journey, proving it was possible to travel from Tahiti to Hawaii using only what was available to the ancient Polynesians.
The replica of the ancient voyaging canoe was built in the early 1970’s. It is called Hōkūle‘a, named for Hawai‘i's zenith star, and it is still sailing today.  
 
(The painting of Hōkūle‘a shown here is by Herb Kane.)                                                       ... more

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