227 5.29.4.2 rio BIG
There are a substantial number of canonical examples of rio and BIG: AK:655 I plant in October. That’s the only month I don’t want to plant taro. But I cannot help, I got
to plant if I get the hull, I have to plant. But the taro is big, real big. But no more babies. But somebody, they plant in October, they get lot of babies. Well, you know me, oh, how many years I try. Same thing.
GF:338 Apii. The white taro. Green stalk. Eleven, 12, 13 month, we harvest big taro. That taro big. When he cultivate his taro, when he run the water inside there, just like river running in there. He
doesn’t believe in small amount of water. He wants plenty water. Fresh water, clean water. Clean the ditches, clean the sides, make the water circulate. Taro stalk, ho, real big. Tall.
NC:162 No, this is after the tidal wave. I replant. I go all over again. The tidal wave one, I just forget. We were pulling taro then. Do you know where Andrew’s section is? All that section was planted
and the taro was real big. He got so disgusted he joined the Army Ready for harvest, you know, and the taro was really big. You know, one taro get six to seven pounds. Some of the taro were still there but
cannot be used; the salt water got them. So I start all over again, planted, and got about 6,000 bags. The first 3,000 bags I didn’t pull any, and the second 3,000 bags, I only harvested about, I think 1,200 bags,
that’s all.
WK:705 They used to have big park in the back there. Big. Real big park. Bigger than Kukuihaele
Park. 5.29.4.3 rio SMALL
There are two canonical examples of rio and SMALL: GF:346 If you make mother seed, you come June or July, the seeds tassel. When he tassel, get
flower come up. The seed, the mother seed you plant flower, see. When it flowers, half of the taro going rot. The stalk going drop off, and the seed going come real small. So I don’t make mother seed. I make
all baby seed. So when he come tassel time, the thing too young to tassel. He won’t tassel. NC:137 And when they prepare the thing, they get one lamp with oil and light up. And they use
one wire, must be wire or something. They roll that thing more like cooking. That thing come big and then they put ’em on the part near the small hole. They play with the thing. He come down and then put
on again. More like cooking it, eh? After that, then they stuck ’em in by the hole. The hole is real small, just enough for the needle. They poke the hole, they press the opium in, they pull the needle out so that
the opium still yet get smoke. They put that hole to the fire; they suck, they smoke that.
5.29.4.4 rio MANYMUCH There is a single canonical example of rio and MANYMUCH:
AK:661 Yeah, from the ranch. Those days, the poi was cheap. It was big. About 24 pounds a bag, I
think, those days. Poi real plenty. And then, my grandfather always buy the hard paiai. It’s a poi paste, you know. Something. We just smash the taro, just that, never mix the poi yet. We buy that. They were
all wrapped in ti leaf.
5.29.5 Examples of rili
5.29.5.1 rili GOOD There are a substantial number of canonical examples of rili and GOOD
AK:599 Yeah, we all do that. You know these long stalk from the pandanus tree? That, we strip and
dried. That really good tight thing to tie.
228 AK:622 No. Only I know those years when I was living down there, and no such thing as that. Was
just what I say, the Filipinos, they were good. You know, most time, Filipinos, they try to do something, but no. Even if they drunk, they always really good. We all share together. We never did hear anybody
stealing. BB:003 The girl. [name deleted]. I used to the kin’ chop for her. She used to give me bread. Eh,
that bread was REALLY good, you know. The skin, I like the skin. FD:292 That’s only Fannie. She’s still, that’s why I’m sorry for that girl. If Kanekoa is really good
to her, she would be the happiest woman in this world. But he is so selfish. Poor thing, my daughter. GF:312 Mock Chew. Mock Chew taught me. My father-in-law. He was good to me then, when I
came back. In fact, he like me real good. But I don’t want to put it down. I don’t want to record it. He was really good to me, the old man. He liked me.
NC:196 Waipio get plenty Hawaiian musicians, you know. Plenty good singers and they really can
strum the guitar and ukulele. They really good. In lessons, they’re not too good. But music, oh boy, come natural.
SU:1563 And then, below that, used to be this Bluebird Cafe. And after that, I don’t know. Because
I cannot see, so I don’t know after that. That’s a good spot, though. Really good spot. WK:708 Yeah, that’s why I say. Let me clearly explain to you because those days, we have really
good boys, you know, No trouble. Everybody get together talk story. Talk story, everybody goes home, and go to sleep.
5.29.5.2 rili BAD There is a single canonical example of rili and BAD:
MT:1183 Not to go let this taro rot. Was a situation, was unreal. I don’t know. But I’m not going all
full 100 percent fertilization. Only on certain patches where the rot is really bad. That’s what I’m using.
5.29.5.3 rili BIG There are three canonical examples of rili and BIG:
NC:162 No, this is after the tidal wave. I replant. I go all over again. The tidal wave one, I just forget. We were pulling taro then. Do you know where Andrew’s section is? All that section was planted
and the taro was real big. He got so disgusted he joined the Army. Ready for harvest, you know, and the taro was really big. You know, one taro get six to seven pounds. Some of the taro were still there but
cannot be used; the salt water got them. So I start all over again, planted, and got about 6,000 bags. The first 3,000 bags I didn’t pull any, and the second 3,000 bags, I only harvested about, I think 1,200 bags,
that’s all.
NK:952 More, really big. We have to climb on the tree for pick the coffee. Yeah, the kids climb on
the tree; the parents, they stay down. But those days, they get da kine ladder, eh–stick ladder–when they go. So, we pick on the ladder, pick under. What can pick, you pick. Some kids, they like climb on the
tree.
SU:1550 I used to take care the Indian wrestler, Agi Singh. Big bugger, over 300 pounds. Really big bugger, you know. That guy, when the guy eat, he eat about double of the–triple. And Al Karasick
paid all the bill. He said, “Sam, give ’em all they want to eat.” 5.29.5.4 rili SMALL
There is a single canonical example of rili and SMALL: MM:322 No. Where I’m talking, the plantation store and the Chinese store was in a different camp.
And where I was born and where we was living, they had one small Japanese store. Really small, you know. Maybe what they sell is only, what, candy or something like that only.
229 5.29.5.5 rili MANYMUCH
There is a single canonical example of rili and MANYMUCH: AK:630 They get lot of herbs, though. They got lot of plant, you know. But I don’t know if they got,
because I never did try to whatever, get this thing to help any people that. Maybe I can, I know, but I don’t want to just tell you and then that’s not correct. I got to be sure before I go tell. But for certain
medicine, maybe I know something. There were lot of herbs, Hawaiians. Really plenty. Like cold cough, alaala puloa they call ’em, is another good one. Uhaloa they call that, same thing. On Kawaihae Road, on
the other side of the island, they have those plants. They call that alaala puloa or uhaloa, can be two ways. See, you pull from the ground, and then you got to get the roots, you wash the roots; either you
chew or you boil, same thing. Mountain apple bark, the same thing. The mountain apple bark good for cold. The lehua tree bark and all those. Or the lehua buds, the young shoots. The wild guava, that good
for medicine. You know that guava, the young shoots, that, you get sore stomach, or something, you chew that.
5.29.6 Summary
