Pulo‘ulo‘u
"Another symbol of royalty, pu-lo‘ulo‘u are the staffs that are in front of the crypts, with the gold balls. They represent ancestors who have passed, and have gone into Po, or heaven, and become the stars. And they are brought down, and they are round like a star—as far as the naked eye sees a star—and placed on these staffs.
"They are given ancestral names, and the ones in the corner of the chapel with the kapa hanging from it, the round symbol usually held the relics of that ancestor: bones, or parts of bones, teeth, hair, important relics of that ancestor.
"They are placed in the front as a symbol of the chief's sacredness or kapu."
Two pu-lo‘ulo‘u stand in the vestibule of the chapel at Mauna ‘Ala.
