lauhala

The eyes of all were intently fixed upon the solitary sleeper who lay on his back on a lauhala mat a hundred feet away under the monkey-pod trees.

THE BONES OF KAHEKILI 2010

Any man of all the men who work for me, feed out of my hand, and let me do their thinking for them -- me, who work harder than any of them, who eats no more than any of them, and who can sleep on no more than one lauhala mat at a time like any of them?

THE BONES OF KAHEKILI 2010

And the giant harpooner was still roaring, his the last sounds in my ear, as I fell back on the lauhala mat, and was to all things for the time as one dead.

THE BONES OF KAHEKILI 2010

The clothes ranged from fussy missionary muu-muus to body-tracing shapes in fresh colors and geometric leaf prints; others used hand-beaten tapa bark cloth, woven lauhala fronds, feathers and other traditional materials in startlingly original couture.

Mindy Pennybacker: Food Rule 5-0: Go Whole Hog; Never Eat Wild Predators 2010

There were a dress and tunic decorated with translucent cut-out scallops by Marques Marzan, a lauhala weaver and native practitioner affiliated with Bishop Museum.

Mindy Pennybacker: Food Rule 5-0: Go Whole Hog; Never Eat Wild Predators 2010

The pandanus, or lauhala, is one of the most striking features of the islands.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

No song of birds, or busy hum of insects, accompanied the rustle of the lauhala leaves and the low murmur of the surf.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

The brown tattooed limbs of one man are stretched across the mat, the others are sitting cross-legged, making lauhala leis.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

I have just encamped under a lauhala tree, with my saddle inverted for a pillow, my horse tied by a long lariat to a guava bush, my gear, saddle-bags, and rations for two days lying about, and my saddle blanket drying in the sun.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

It is only the tropical trees, specially the lauhala or “screw pine,” the whimsical shapes of outlying ridges, which now and then lie like the leaves in a book, and the strange forms of extinct craters, which distinguish it from some of our most beautiful park scenery, such as Windsor Great Park or Belvoir.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004