essay

The works of the people of old =: Na hana a ka po'e kahiko

Bishop Museum PressHonolulu • Published In 1976 • Pages: viii, 170

By: Kamakau, Samuel Manaiakalani, Barrère, Dorothy B., Pukui, Mary Kawena.

Abstract
This work, Na Hana a ka Po'e Kahiko, is a sequel to Ka Po'e Kahiko (see Kamakau 1964, eHRAF document no. 9 in this file), both of which are translations by Mary Kawena Pukui from Samuel Manaiakalani Kamakau's series of newspaper articles which ran from October 14, 1869 through November 3, 1870 in Ke Au 'Oko'a. The material deals with various aspects of the traditional culture of the Hawaiians from approximately the late eighteenth century through the major portion of the nineteenth century. The major topics discussed in this work deal with: geography, cultivation of various crops, fishing, fishponds, house construction, tapa making, canoe making, the weaving of fish nets, religion, and religious structures.
Subjects
Fishing
Marine industries
Agriculture
Recreational and non-therapeutic drugs
Felted and other non-interworked fabrics
Structures
Shipbuilding
Ordering of time
Ideas about nature and people
culture
Hawaiians
HRAF PubDate
2003
Region
Oceania
Sub Region
Polynesia
Document Type
essay
Evaluation
Creator Types
Ethnologist
Indigenous Person
Document Rating
5: Excellent Primary Data
Analyst
John Beierle ; 2002
Field Date
no date
Coverage Date
ca. late eighteenth - nineteenth centuries
Coverage Place
Hawaiian Islands, United States
Notes
Samuel Manaiakalani Kamakau ; translated from the newspaper Ke Au 'oko'a by Mary Kawena Pukui ; arr. and edited by Dorothy B. Barrère
Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-162) and index
LCCN
75021315
LCSH
Hawaiians