Pulu
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2008-04-17T17:34:23Z
Jafeluv
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added reference to the similarly named album
{{otheruses4||the Tibetan ball game|Polo|the King of Babylon|Tiglath-Pileser III|the Ismo Alanko Säätiö album|Pulu (album)}}
[[Image:Hapuu.jpg|right|thumb|150px|''[[Cibotium|Cibotium glaucum]]'']]
'''Pulu''' is a silky material obtained from the fibers of the [[Cibotium|hapu{{okina}}u pulu]] (''Cibotium glaucum''), a [[tree fern]] of [[Hawaii]]. It is made of the brown hairs that cover the young [[fiddlehead]] as it uncoils. For a period in the 1800s, pulu was collected, dried, and exported as pillow and mattress stuffing. A stone structure in [[Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park]] known as the Old Pulu Factory was a site for drying and packing pulu. However, the discovery that pulu breaks down and crumbles into dust after only a few years led to the demise of the industry. In addition, pulu was often collected by cutting down the slow-growing hapu{{okina}}u, an extremely unsustainable method.
Natives have used pulu as a wound dressing and for embalming.
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[[Category:Hawaii culture]]
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