These sharks, whales, and fishes may be made of paper, but they look realistic and are fun to play with! In Hawaiian Sea Life Origami: A Beginner’s Step-by-Step Guide, Laurie Ide and her fifth-grade daughter Karley teach you how to make a dolphin, a monk seal, turtles, fishes, lobsters, and more—thirty-six marine animals in all.

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Restoring Bishop Museum's Hawaiian Hall: Ho‘i Hou Ka Wena Kaiwi‘ula (Dawn's golden glow returns to Kawai‘ula) gives a sneak peek into the newly renovated Hawaiian Hall at Bishop Museum. It consists of a collection of essays from various people within the community who had a hand in the hall's [...]
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The J.S. Emerson collection of Hawaiian artifacts is among Bishop Museums's largest Hawaiian ethnological collections and includes some of the finest examples of pre- and post-contact objects. Much of its value lies in Emerson's faithful recording of circumstances in which he recollected the objects [...]
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Before the arrival of Captain Cook in1778, the Hawaiians fastened things with cordage, for they had no nails, bolts, or screws. They used cordage to bind the parts of their houses and canoes, their two-piece fishhooks and hafted adzes, to mend cracks in wood and gourd articles. They also used it to [...]
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Meticulously detailed and well illustrated, this definitive resource on Hawaiian material culture guides the reader through every major element of Hawaiian life, providing detailed descriptions of traditional objects, methods of construction, and traditional use. As a testimony to former Bishop Muse [...]
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