... called puniu accompanies the pahu. The puniu is made from the skin of the kalu fish, stretched over half a coconut shell. Captain Cook arrived in Hawaii in 1779; centuries after the Hawaiian people began dancing the hula. Hula was then danced more by men rather than women. And grass skirts were never ... worn; they wore skirts made of kappa cloth. But when Christian Missionaries arrived in Hawaii back in the 1820's, the art of hula was deemed "inappropriate" and "heathenish." The missionaries were said to have been shocked by the open dancing. This was ... the description of the scene,...

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