Kawena and her grandmother were inseparable, and the child was taught many things she needed to know. Kawena was born into the Fire Clan of Kaʻu. She had delivered the child, and asked Pukui's parents for the child to raise in the traditional way, and her request was granted. Pukui's maternal grandmother, Naliʻipoʻaimoku, was a kahuna laʻau lapaʻau (medicinal expert) and kahuna pale keiki (midwife) and a hula dancer in Queen Emma's court. Pukui was born on April 20, 1895, in her grandmother's home, named Hale Ola, in Haniumalu, Kaʻu, on Hawaiʻi Island, to Henry Nathaniel Wiggin (originally from Salem, Massachusetts, of a distinguished shipping family descended from Massachusetts Bay Colony governor Simon Bradstreet and his wife, the poet Anne Bradstreet) and Mary Paʻahana Kanakaʻole, descendant of a long line of kahuna (priests) going back centuries. Mary Abigail Kawenaʻulaokalaniahiʻiakaikapoliopele Naleilehuaapele Wiggin Pukui (20 April 1895 – ), known as Kawena, was a Hawaiian scholar, author, composer, hula expert, and educator.
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