All the food we could eat from the shoreline...
Genevieve Nahulu, born 1914, Nānākuli resident, talking about "...all the food we could eat from the shoreline."
"My days of picking limu are over. My, but those were good days. We collected ‘ina wana too, the small sea urchins. We pounded the whole thing and put the gravy from that on poke. Oh, it's so delicious. We collected salt, too, in those small holes in the papa [reef]. When the waves were big, Nama would say they were washing the papa. Then when the tide would go down, the sea water in the small holes would evaporate and we'd collect that clean, fine, fine salt. In those days, I don't remember people leaving their palu, the bait, in the holes. Not like today. You find all kinds of rubbish on the shoreline. People are kapulu now. Some even shee shee in the papa holes. No way we can collect salt now."
Reference Cited
Yarber, Y. 1991. Genevieve Akana Nahulu of Nanakuli, A Life History. Hawaii Department of Education. Honolulu, HI.
