Editing Calabash (section)

=== Polynesia ===
The plant is spread throughout [[Polynesia]] known by ''hue'' in many related languages.<ref>{{cite web|title=Hue|work=Te Māra Reo: The Language Garden|year=2022|publisher=Benton Family Trust|url=https://www.temarareo.org/PPN-Hue.html|access-date=29 November 2022}}</ref>

In [[Hawaii]] the word "calabash" refers to a large serving bowl, usually made from hardwood rather than from the calabash gourd, which is used on a buffet table or in the middle of the dining table. The use of the calabash in Hawaii has led to terms like "calabash family" or "calabash cousins", indicating an extended family grown up around shared meals and close friendships. This gourd is often dried when ripe and used as a percussion instrument called an ''ipu heke'' (double gourd drum) or just [[Ipu]] in contemporary and ancient [[hula]].

The [[Māori people]] of [[New Zealand]] grew several cultivars of calabash for particular uses like ''ipu kai'' cultivars as food containers and ''tahā wai'' cultivars as water gourds. They believed the gourd as a representation of Pū-tē-hue, one of [[Tāne]] (their god of forests)'s offspring.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Best|first=Elsdon|url= https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-BesAgri-t1-body-d7.html|title=Maori Agriculture - Part VII The Hue or Gourd. Lagenaria Vulgaris|year=1976|publisher=A. R. Shearer|location=Wellington, New Zealand|pages=245–255|via=NZETC at [[Victoria University of Wellington]] Library}}</ref> Several types of [[taonga pūoro]] (musical instruments) are made from gourds, including types of flute (ororuarangi, kōauau ponga ihu) and shakers (hue rarā, hue puruwai).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Flintoff |first1=Brian |title=Taonga Pūoro Singing Treasures: The Musical Instruments of the Māori |date=2004 |publisher=Craig Potton Publishing |location=Nelson |pages=27–35}}</ref>