Book
A Narrative of a tour through Hawaii, or Owhyhee: with remarks on the history, traditions, manners, customs, and language of the inhabitants of the Sandwich Islands
Hawaiian Gazette Co. Ltd. • Honolulu, Hawaii • Published In 1917 • Pages: 367
By: Ellis, William.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a report of a two-month circut of the island of Hawaii by a group of missionaries in 1823, a few years after the abolition of the idols in 1819. Ellis gives a survey of the land, trails, volcanic activity, settlements, sources of water, population, with an eye to good missions spots. He began his tour in Kawaihae, South Kohala and traveled by boat and foot in a counter-clockwise route visiting the settlements of Kailua, Honaunau, Honuapo, Kaimu, Hilo, and Waipio. He gives accounts of Hawaiian hospitality, industry, and customs, including infanticide, surfing, games, warfare, cooking, farming, and singing. Where they can the missionaries hold Sunday services and preach, the chiefs helping to turn out villagers. Ellis describes Hawaiian society in a betwixt-and-between period, their temples in ruins and gods vanquished.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Topography and geology
- Settlement patterns
- Navigation
- Water transport
- Visiting and hospitality
- Territorial organization
- Chief executive
- Missions
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Hawaiians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2003
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Polynesia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Missionary
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2002
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1822-1823
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1823
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Hawai'i County, Hawai'i, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by William Ellis, missionary from the Society and Sandwich Islands
- Reprint of the London 1827 edition
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hawaiians