The lei of the warrior, the leiomanō, is held in the hand.
Shark-tooth daggers, with flattened club-like heads, were edged with shark teeth. Chapter 18 of Resource Units in Hawaiian Culture, “Warfare and Weapons,” says Te Rangi Hiroa described a leiomanō with 10 shark teeth and another with 23 teeth lashed around the edge.
A fearsome and fitting weapon for an aliʻi, sometimes poetically described as a shark.
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