Makau means fishhook, something we see everyday in Hawaiʻi, even if you don't go near the water. The beautiful fishhooks carved form bone and used as a decoration around the necks of so many men and women in Hawaiʻi today are correctly called makau.
Hawaiian Word of the Day: August 8th
![Makau means fishhook.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/0403176/2147483647/strip/true/crop/901x751+0+0/resize/880x733!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F7b%2F4c%2F2a274852471ea02648184e313b4d%2Faugust-08.png)