Upena kiloi-Thrownet fishing
by Lehua Pekelo-Stearns
Title
Upena kiloi-Thrownet fishing
Artist
Lehua Pekelo-Stearns
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
“ I don’t expect you to feel the ocean through your veins being pushed and pulled by the moons smile each night,
The ocean that my kūpuna used to hānau and hānai our people.”
Ancient Hawaiians relied on the ocean as a primary source of food and sustenance. While Polynesian fisherman used many methods to catch fish, net fishing was the favored way to catch an abundant amount of fish in an efficient manner. Today, throw net fishing or 'upena kiloi in Hawaii is still popular and utilizes both ancient and modern methods. The black rocks you see in the photo are black lava rock from a volcanic eruption in 1960 that flowed down and over a small Hawaiian sugar plantation town, Kapoho....along the Puna coastline.
Today…”Kapoho, Hawaii, is a now-uninhabited unincorporated area in Puna district, Hawaii County, Hawaii, located near the eastern tip of the island of Hawaii, in the easternmost end of the graben overlying Kīlauea's east rift zone. Originally destroyed by an eruption of Kīlauea in 1960, it was rebuilt as a community of private homes and vacation rentals. In the eruption that began in May 2018, the town was largely destroyed by lava by early June, and the bay filled in as the lava flow extended out into the ocean.”
The fisherman is a good friend on one of many beautiful mornings fishing in Kapoho Bay.
*There is a little drybrush filter effect on the photo.
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December 9th, 2011
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Comments (1)
Joleen Yamaguchi
A great shot....awesome!
Lehua Pekelo-Stearns replied:
Thank you Joleen! Feel free to browse around my website here at FAA or at: www.lehua-pekelostearns.artistwebsites.com