The first thing we covered this semester in Physics was the importance of standards and how Hawaiian measurements related to it. Measurements like the iwilei or pia are some ways of measuring using your body. Iwilei is the length from your collar bone to the tip of your middle finger. A pia is the length from your extended thumb to your extended pinky. I recently went fishing and was fortunate enough to bag several fish.
In order to measure it's estimated length, we used a pia to measure the length of this Black Tail Snapper, or To‘au. This To‘au measured out to be about 11/3 pia or about 8". This relates to our physics unit on Hawaiian measurements and standards because I used my knowledge of pia and measuring with my body to apply the measurements to my catch.
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