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Tales and Traditions of the People of Old completes a trilogy based on a series of articles Kamakau wrote in 1868 and 1870 for the Hawaiian Language newspaper Ke Au ‘Oko‘a. In this final volume, Kamakau takes the reader on a tour of the islands, stopping along the way to tell tales associated wi [...]
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In Ka Po‘e Kahiko, Kamakau documents the fundamental principles underlying the daily activities of Hawaiian life. Focusing in particular on the spiritual and religious aspects, the organization of Hawaiian societyas a whole and that of each class is discussed. The closing chapters discuss traditio [...]
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The Journals and Correspondence of Naturalist R.C.L. Perkins in Hawai‘i, 1892-1901 British naturalist Robert Cyril Layton Perkins was sent to the Hawaiian Islands to survey the land animals (mostly birds, insects, and snails) for the Royal Society and the British Association for the Advancement of [...]
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In this book, Samuel M. Kamakau examines aspects of the material culture of his ancestors. The text is a translated and edited version of a series of articles published in the Hawaiian language newspaper Ke Au ‘Oko‘a in 1969 and 1870. Kamakau wrote of practices that were fast disappearing with i [...]
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The isolated islands of Nihoa and Necker (Mokumanamana) are the two most southerly of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and have remained virtually untouched since their discovery by westerners in the late 1700's. Although the first Polynesian settlers to these islands have long since departed, Niho [...]
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Sites of Maui is a single resource for information on the prehistory of Maui. Over a decade-long span, Elspeth P. Sterling combed Hawaiian-and English-language written records of Maui, talked with kupuna, and traveled the island with anthropologists and local informants to rediscover the sites named [...]
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Nihoa and Necker mark the transition from the southeastern high islands of the Hawaiian archipelago to the atolls scattered throughout the northwestern part. According to Hawaiian oral traditions and the archaeological record, these islands were the northwestern frontier of the lands populated by th [...]
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Born a living god, Kamehameha III (r. 1825-1854) was the last traditional king of the Hawaiian Islands. His preferred domicile was a tiny, silty island within a large, freshwater fishpond at Lahaina, Maui. This sacred island of Moku‘ula was also home to the supernatural guardian of the royal famil [...]
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The Kona diustrict of Hawai‘i is a rich archive of the Hawaiian past and prime source for research today. The Amy B. H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden in Kona provides us a look into this past - a place to observe and investigate agricultural technologies that once supported the development of H [...]
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