This system was feudal land ownership was fully

 This system was feudal. Land ownership was fully separated from kin groups,
with duties and obligations held by the commoner household and their overlord
chiefs, and with the ultimate rights held by the chiefs. In Polynesia, this system
developed only in Hawai‘i and Tonga by the time of European contact (Cordy, p.
53).
 There were clusters of households which lived next to each other. These had no
name and were often described by referring to a dominant individual, such as
Keone ma. Members of these clusters could have been related, brothers,
sisters, etc. But they held their property separately as households. These
resident groups did share a men’s house, the communal gathering spot for the
group’s men. Here men gossiped, worked, and occasionally ate and slept. Here
to they kept images associated with their ancestral spirits and made offerings
(Cordy, p. 53).
 The largest social group in daily life was the community (sometimes given the
label ahupua‘a, which is actually the name of the community’s land). At
contact, this was not a corporate kin group. Rather it was the collection of
resident commoner households given use rights to residence by the overlord
chief, with the konohiki as his representative. A variety of community use and
access rights existed: to water in irrigated lands, to reef and forest resources, to
trails (Cordy, p. 54).
 A commoner’s daily life was split among the subsistence tasks of fishing,
farming, tending livestock, and gathering shellfish; maintenance tasks such as
collecting firewood; manufacturing of kappa, mats, fishhooks and tools; religious
activities; leisure; and obligations to the chiefs. Full-time specialists may have
existed, but they were usually attached to a high chief’s or the rulers court:
feather cloak- and helmet-makers, warriors, navigators, priests, fishing
specialists, to name but a few. Exceptions may have been sorcerers, medical
specialists, and the like (Cordy, p. 54).
 Obligations to the chiefs were multiple. Every few days, labor was required in
the local chief’s and overlord chief’s fields, the kø‘ele plots. Annual ahupua‘a
taxes were gathered—usually in the form of bundles of bird feathers, kapa cloth,
dried taro, other foodstuffs, pigs, and dogs. Nonperiodic demands were also
made for labor on heiau, fishponds and paths; for warriors; and for foodstuffs
when a high chief or ruler was in residence nearby, or when he needed food for
special ceremonies. Strict respect behavior was owed to the chiefs and to the
ceremonies linked to the national religious (Cordy, p. 54).
 Generally, the lot of the commoner was not unusually harsh, unless beset by
drought, lava flows, a demanding chief, or repeated warfare. The land was
generally bountiful, and unless gross violations of etiquette to chiefs occurred,
life and land rights were safe (Cordy, p. 54).