Show mineral one of the most singular products of hawaii is a vitreous lava known as hair it is a silky filamentous substance olive green or yellowish brown in color soft to the touch but very brittle it is produced by the wind catching the fiery spray thrown up from the crater kilauea which the long since personified soni fied as the fire goddess pole but the real cause of the lava formin gr into such soft silky fibers is believed to be the gas and steam escaping through the lava nearly all of the native birds of hawaii use it as a nest building material |