Haka Pei Easter Island Rapa Nui Symbols Necklace

Haka Pei is a Rapa Nui sport during the Tapati festival.
Bananas are very important in Rapa Nui culture. In Rapa Nui, there was a banana called maíka, and it was the first food that the locals offered to Europeans. The banana trunk was used in a sport called haka pe'i and Rapa Nui people slid on them from the hills. The rules of Haka Pei are very simple: you need to become naked in a loincloth at the top of a volcano 300 meters high, tie yourself to two banana trunks and slide on them.
The speed could reach 50 miles per hour. It was necessary to stop the banana trunks in front of the crowd of spectators at the foot of the volcano.