The Hawaiians say that Hina and her maidens pounded out the softest, finest kapa cloth on the long, thick kapa board at the foot of Kauiki.
Finally Maui rolled some kapa cloth together and stuck it up in one end of the canoe so that it would look like a man.
They could spread out their kapa cloth to dry as long as the kite was in the sky.
The kite had been made of the strongest kapa (paper cloth) which Maui's mother could prepare.
Here near Kauiki, according to some Hawaiian legends, Maui's mother Hina had her grass house and made and dried her kapa cloth.
Here above the reach of the surf still lies the long, black stone into which the legends say Hina's kapaboard was changed.
Even to the present day it is one of the few places in the islands where the kapa is still pounded into sheets from the bark of the hibiscus and kindred trees.
On their spears were the great sharks' teeth, and their tabu staffs were crowned with kapa black or white.
It was on the evening before the day just as the sun sank into the sea, there came a cloud, blacker than the kapa for the dead, moving slowly above the sea, and the gray rain following as a veil behind it.
My spearman of Maunalei can have no fear; and you shall wrestle with him; and let the one whose arms can clasp the girl after the fight carry her to his house, where one kapa shall cover the two.
At last some of the more venturesome of the younger folks managed to tear his kapa off, as if accidentally, when the shark-mouth on his back was seen by all the people near.
The puloulou were short, stout poles, each surmounted by a ball of whitekapa cloth, and indicated that the person or persons inhabiting the premises so defined were of the highest rank, and sacred.
He also kept aloof from all the games and pastimes of the young people, for fear that the wind or some active movement might displace the kapa mantle, and the shark-mouth be exposed to view.
When brought before the King he still wore his kapa kihei or mantle.
Awa andkapa were also placed there as offerings to the fish deities.
Hapuu, putting on his kapa with its knot fastening on the left side of the neck, which means that he is bringing a death message.
The kahuna told them to lie in wait for Nanaue, and the next time he prophesied that a person would be eaten head and tail, to have some strong men seize him and pull off his kapa mantle, when a shark mouth would be found on his back.
Oahunui was stretched out on a pile of soft mats covered with his paiula, the royal red kapa of old.
Save me from the bloody virgin-eater, and I will catch the squid and beat the kapa for thee all my days.
Some of them, as the Timucua and Yámassi settlements, are taken from dates somewhat earlier, while the location of the Atákapa tribe is known to us only from the first decennium of the nineteenth century.
Ike ae la o Kahauokapaka i ke kaikamahine e hiiia mai ana, ua hoaahuia i ke kapa keiki, ia manawa, kena koke ae la ke alii i ka Ilamuku e pepehi.
Ia Poliahu ma eha e ku ana me na kapa hau o lakou, he mea e ka hulali, ia manawa, nei aku la ka aha lealea no keia poe wahine, no ke ano e o ko lakou kapa.
Kahea iho la, "E Moanalihaikawaokele", homai kuu kapa i haumia i kuu mai, e lawe ae au e hoomaemae i ka wai.
A kahiko iho la o Aiwohikupua i kona kapa hau a Poliahu i haawi aku ai, kau iho la i ka mahiole ie i hakuia i ka hulu o na Iiwi.
Ia manawa, lawe ae la o Poliahu i kona kapa la, a aahu iho la, ia manawa ka hookuu ana'ku o Poliahu i ka wela maluna o Hinaikamalama.
Ia manawa, haalele e Poliahu i kona kapa hau, lalau like ae la ka poe noho mauna i ko lakua kapa la, hoi aku la ka hau a kona wahi mau.
Ia lakou no hoi e lawelawe ana i ke keiki mua, hanau hou mai la he kaikamahine no, a lilo ae la ia Kapukaihaoa, a kapa iho la i ka inoa o ka muli o Laielohelohe.
In ancient times it was an offense punishable with death for a common man to wear a double kapa or malo.
They wrapped them in kapa with fragrant herbs, such as the flowers of the sugar-cane, which had the property of embalming them.
When the priest wanted Kalai-pahoa he was taken down and anointed with cocoanut-oil and wrapped in a fresh kapa cloth.
The storm wet and destroyed the kapa mantle which she had thrown around her as she hurried from her home after Hiku.
There his people cultivated taro, made kapa cloth, and prepared the trunks of koa-trees for canoes.
Then Kahuli twisted his kapaclothes full of lightning and threw them into the sky.
His uncles stepped aside, and then he threw off his thin kapa and the people shouted again and again until the echoes shook the precipices around the valley.
He wrapped the body very carefully in kapa cloth made from the bark of trees.
Then they took it, wrapped it in a soft kapa and went back to the temple.
From infancy to manhood Kalei protected Nanaue by keeping his back covered with a fine kapa cloak.
One day, when their high chief had called all the men of the valley to prepare the taro patches for their future supply of food, a fellow-workman standing by the side of Nanaue tore his kapa cape from his shoulders.
If it were a shark-god, the sacrifice was a black pig, a dark red chicken, and some awa wrapped in new white kapa made by a virgin.
He took a piece of kapa and wrapped it up, carrying the broken body down to a fountain, where he cleansed it and offered chants and incantations until the child became alive.
To conceal these monstrous appendages he wore over his shoulders a kihei of kapa and allowed himself to be seen only while in the sitting posture.
An antique sofa, studded with brass nails, exhibited upon its towering back a picture of Tsong Kapa reclining under the tree of a thousand images at the Llamasary of Koomboom.
The firelight flickered over their faces and the strange pictures on the wall, and the head of Tsong Kapa shone more plainly than ever before.
Eu kap take hold of; Dak yu-kapa catch as a ball, kapa surpass.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kapa" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
