Post #643831 by Hanalei Tiki on Thu, Jul 12, 2012 9:09 PM

My family recently spent three weeks in Kauai. I flew over to Oahu for a day to visit a friend who makes museum quality replica Hawaiian war weapons (pahoa, kepa lima, leiomano, strangulation cord etc), anyways he volunteers at the Bishops Museum, and pulled a favour and got me into the private collections area ... bags of kepa lima (lethal, hidden finger weapons), shark tooth leiomano, etc. from the days of Kamehameha, got to hold a couple of them, using white gloves, powerful experience, got da chicken skin ... even a three foot marlin dagger from Cpt James Cook from his first expedition to Hawaii ... really cool. The curator of collections as well as one of their scholars were present, and they were also talking of the Night Marchers, they themselves having seen them. I don't really believe in ghost, but makes you wonder ... these were highly educated folks ... they are so proud of their culture and heritage. Check out the Bishops if you're there, amazing to see the giant Ku on display, and lots of other tikis!