I hēHotumatu’a

Ancestral song/Arranged by Jose Miguel Tobar

Performed by Mahani Teave and Enrique Icka

This song is about Hotumatu’a the first King of the Island. It’s a story about his life, chanted when he was going to die. It was sung to the spirits for him to travel back to his original land of birth, possibly the Marquesa Islands.