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'Olelo No'eau : Hawaiian Proverbs & Poetical Sayings
Bishop Museum Press, 1997
'Olelo No'eau
For anyone interested in learning about the poetry and eloquence that is the Hawaiian language, you have to buy this book. The book "Olelo No'eau (which means wise sayings) illustrates the ways in which Hawaiians used examples of what they observed in their everyday ...
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Sacred Hula: The Historical Hula Ala'Apapa (Bishop Museum Bulletins in Anthropology)
Amy K. Stillman
Bishop Museum Press, 1998
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Lua: Art of the Hawaiian Warrior
Sally-jo Keala-o-anuenue Bowman, Tamara Leiokanoe Moan, ...
Bishop Museum Press, 2005
History Preserved
Lua, the Hawaiian martial art, went underground after the arrival of the missionaries in the early 1800s. Despite the suppression, clandestine masters passed on the secrets of lua to a select few. Over time, much of the art was lost and only one known master ...
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Folktales of Hawaii
Mary Kawena Pukui
Bishop Museum Press, 1995
Mary Kawena Pukui stands alone in the history of Hawai'i for her unparalleled contributions to the preservation and revitalization of Hawaiian language and culture. This collection includes tales she first heard from her grandmother and mother when she was a child in Ka'u on the Big Island. Many of the folktales are presented both in Pukui's ...
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Marine Green and Brown Algae of the Hawaiian Islands (Bishop Museum Bulletins in Botany)
Isabella Aiona Abbott, John M. Huisman
Bishop Museum Press, 2004
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Hawaiian Antiquities (Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum Special Publication)
David Malo
Bishop Museum Press, 1987
An essential work in Hawaiian studies
This is a classic work in Hawaiian literature. Written approx in 1840, the author bridges an ancient,pagan, pre-Cook Hawaiian world; and a new world of foreigners, private property, diseases, Christianity, and a struggle to maintain a Hawaiian identity. Malo describes ...
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Sailing in the Wake of the Ancestors: Reviving Polynesian Voyaging (Legacy of Excellence)
Ben R. Finney
Bishop Museum Press, 2004
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Hawaiian Petroglyphs (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication)
J. Halley Cox, Edward Stasack
Bishop Museum Press, 1970
Superb Introduction to the subject
A great combination of scholarship and educated speculation. The authors approach the formations in multiple ways -- from describing the qualities of the rocks on which the petroglyphs are drawn, to the similarities of technique and composition of groupings across the ...
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Lost Mines and Buried Treasure Along the Old Frontier
John D. Mitchell
Bishop Museum Press, 1982
John D. Mitchell and his Treasure Hunt.
John Mitchell not only writes about treasure but You can tell he has also researched the facts about treasure he rode the hoofs off his trusty mules in the early days of the united states working and hunting for treasure. He had a job that took him in some of the most ...
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Na Mo'olelo Lomilomi: The Traditions of Hawaiian Massage and Healing
Bishop Museum Press, 2005
Authentic
Hawaiian Kupuna(elders) and authentically-trained lomilomi practitioners applaud this book as a needed reference for serious students of the Hawaiian healing arts. This book is a compilation of edited historical material, not a training manual. It serves our local ...
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Lost Mines of the Great Southwest
John D. Mitchell
Bishop Museum Press, 1984
First published in 1933. The first of the author's treasure hunting duo (see above).At the height of the Great Depression in 1933, a lot of people read this book and wished they could afford to take a chance on finding some of the treasure the author describes so well. Not a chance. Still, who knows? This is some of the thousands of legends about ...
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Kepelino's Traditions of Hawaii
Bishop Museum Press, 2007
Highly recommended for what it is; difficult to interpret for what it is...
Kepelino was a Hawaiian man born around 1830. He was schooled by Catholic missionaries, traveled to Tahiti in 1847 to open a mission, and became a prolific contributor to Catholic newspapers and Hawaiian language newspapers. He also sided with Queen Emma in her fight ...
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Material Culture: The J.S. Emerson Collection of Hawaiian Artifacts
Catherine C. Summers
Bishop Museum Press, 1999
Material Culture: The J. S. Emerson Collection of Hawaiian Artifacts gives educators and students of Hawaiian history and culture, anthropologists, ethnologists, archaeologists, and curators abroad view into the everyday activities of ancient Hawaiians. J. S. Emerson's nineteenth-century conversations and Catherine Summers' photographs and ...
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Fragments of Hawaiian History (Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum Special Publication)
John Papa Ii
Bishop Museum Press, 1959
A must for a Hawaiians
A must read, an excellent account of the young life of King Kamehameha with all the drama & intrigue of a great novel.
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A Tropical Garden Flora: Plants Cultivated In The Hawaiian Islands And Other Tropical Places
George W. Staples, Derral R. Herbst
Bishop Museum Press, 2005
Book of the Century
I have just finished writing a review of this book for the West Hawaii Today newspaper. I've looked it over quite thoroughly. It's flawless! And I'm a very picky reviewer. It will be the authoritative classic for many years to come, and I predict it will garner ...
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