Lau amau & Palai a Kamapuaa Tube Dress
Lau amau & Palai a Kamapuaa - Ferns and are like the backbone of Hawaiian romance and story –they are everywhere! Woven into lei, made into skirts of magical power, laid down as a blanket for a lover, embodied by gods and goddesses, the list goes on. When we think of epic tales of aloha, the mind quickly alights on the amorous Kamapuaa, the insatiable kolohe who is known to take on the form of a fern. Palapalai a Kamapuaa (Amauropelta globulifera) is the frond featured on this garment, along with the lau amau, a watermark design for kapa that represents the amau fern (a Hawaiian endemic genus of
fern, Sadleria ). The area where amau ferns grow in abundance is called amau or wao amau. Kamapuaa must have run away from Pele to one of these upland regions and assumed his amau fern form - one of his many kinolau.
$50.00
