The Puka design was created from a necklace made of thick puka shells and black pearls that my husband gave me years ago. It had broken, and I used the puka shell pieces to forge the image. Found on certain Hawaiian beaches, puka shells are rounded shell fragments, usually pieces of cone or sea snail shells. “Puka,” meaning hole in Hawaiian, refers to the naturally occurring hole in the center of the shell pieces. These shells are one of the many gifts nature provides on the islands, another reminder of the local expression “Lucky we live Hawaii.”