Akua Ki'i

These guys are called akua ki'i in Hawaiian (as best I can deduce from web sites). They are wooden carvings of gods. These are reproductions that reside in the Pu`uhonua o Honaunau National Historic Park south of Kailua-Kona. This park is the site of a pu'uhonua, which is a sacred area where bloodshed was forbidden according to Hawaiian kapu, or moral code. There are only a few stone walls left from the original pu'uhonua, but some buildings have been recreated to give visitors an idea what native Hawaiian structures were like.