Limu Lipoa | Relaxed top - gray

Sale price Price $52.00 Regular price

Organic cotton/lycra blend | Relaxed fit | Side slits | Seamless shoulder | 'Āina-friendly dyes & inks | Designed in Hawai'i | Made in the USA

Relaxed Top Lō'ihi Uala
Back length Bicep Side slit
XS 22" 15" 4.25"
S 23" 16" 4.25"
M 24" 16.5" 4.25"
L 25" 17" 4.5"
XL 25.5" 18" 4.5"
2XL 26" 18.5" 4.5"
3XL 27" 19" 4.5"

Model is wearing a size medium.  

Limu Lipoa
I ka wā i huhū ai ka pūkolu akua iā Haʻinakolo,  waiho akula lākou iā lāua me Leimakani ma ke kai e hanaʻino ʻia ai e Kanaloa, Keaumiki, a me Keaukā. Lilo ko Haʻinakolo waʻa i nā ʻale o ka moana a lana aʻela lāua i kai. ʻAʻohe naʻe haʻalele ʻana o nā ʻaumākua i kona ʻaoʻao:
Ua hoʻoikaika aʻela nō ʻo Hāʻinakolo me ka hoʻomanawanui a kau ke keiki ma ke kua, a laila, pane aʻela ia i ke keiki, “E paʻa nō ʻoe iaʻu a paʻa. A naʻu nō kāua e hoʻolana hele aku ma koʻu ʻau hoʻomanawanui ʻana aku nō hoʻi. I ʻau nō hoʻi kāua a i pau koʻu wahi ikaika, a laila ʻo ko kāua pilikia nō ia. Mamake nō hoʻi kāua, e kuʻu lei, i kēia moana a kāua e ʻau ʻōlulo nei.” Ke kamaʻilio ala nō ʻo Hāʻinakolo i ke keiki, ke iho makawalu lā nō nā waimaka ma kona mau pāpālina. Ua maʻalahi naʻe kēia ʻau ʻana a lāua nei, ʻoiai ua ikaika ka lawe a ke au iā lāua i mua, a ua luhi ʻole hoʻi ʻo Hāʻinakolo i ke kaupē ʻana me kona mau lima. Iā lāua e lana hele nei i luna o ka ʻili o ka moana, ua pohā ikaika maila ka mālamalama o ka lā. Ua neʻe aʻela ke ao Kahaʻea a ma kēia ʻaoʻao o ka lā, hoʻolana ihola. ʻO ko lāua nei māmā e neʻe nei, ma muli o ka lawe a ke au me ka ikaika, ua ʻoi aku ia ma mua o ka holo o kekahi moku ahi holo loa i ʻike ʻia i kēia au hou. Ma muli o ka ikaika o ka wela o ka lā e papā ana i ia wā i luna o ka ʻili o ke kai, ua pumehana nō lāua nei e lawe ʻia nei e kahi kupuna kāne hoʻomanawanui o lāua, ʻo ia hoʻi ʻo Keaulawe. I ia wā, ʻike ihola ʻo Hāʻinakolo, eia ʻo ia ke lana nei i luna o kekahi pūnonohu limu lipoa i hui pū ʻia me ka limu kala.”  Ka Nai Aupuni  24 Dek - 9 Ian 1908

Limu Lipoa
On Haʻinakolo’s perilous journey back home to Hawaiʻi from Kuaihelani, she and her son Leimakani endured all the scary things imaginable during open ocean travel. Keaulawe, the grandfather current, kept Kanaloa’s deadly tentacles at bay and, in the area just around Haʻinakolo’s canoe, calmed the radical ocean swells and violent winds unleashed by Keaumiki and Keaukā. Eventually, though, the storm got to them again, they lost their canoe, and Haʻinakolo found herself in the ocean having to put Leimakani on her back. She knew she could only swim so long supporting him, but one thing that helped keep them afloat was a “pūnonohu” (mass) of limu lipoa and limu kala that gathered underneath them. Buoyed by the limu, warmed by the aku and ʻōpelu that schooled around them, shielded from the harsh rays of the sun by Mailelauliʻi in her kahaʻea cloud form, and pulled along on Keaulawe’s “steamship” of a current, Haʻinakolo and Leimakani were sheparded by these ʻaumākua all the way to the shores of Keōlewa (aka Kamāwaelualani, aka Kauaʻi). It was several days and nights of floating in the sea—an experience few folks today can even fathom—and without the aid of these ʻaumākua, Haʻinakolo and Leimakani surely would have perished. Lipoa (Dictyopteris plagiogramma) is a Hawaiian favorite, famous for its strong scent and delicious flavor. Once abundant on the shores of places like Waikīkī and Kīhei, lipoa is now becoming harder to find. On Molokai, collecting is best in the summer months when it grows long and luscious.

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