Did Hawaiian ... wear plant-based clothing for ritual and dance—the Māori of New Zealand, Samoans, Gilbert Islanders, Fijians and Tongans, to name a few. In Hawai‘i, traditional hula dancers ...

a hula instructor, create costumes. At an early age, he also became skilled in the traditional Hawaiian technique of making ohe kapala, carved bamboo laths that are used to stamp patterns onto ...