Field Guide to the Birds of French Polynesia

Bruner, Phillip L.

Sports & Outdoors

Bishop Museum Pr

Keys to and descriptions of the 146 families, 649 genera, and 1,817 species of native and naturalized plants, arranged alphabetically within the dicots and monocots. Each species is presented with its accepted scientific name, Hawaiian and English common names, nomenclatural and taxonomic synonyms, chromosome numbers if available, and geographical and ecological ranges, as well as notes on taxonomic problems and ethnobotanical information. More than half of the species and nearly all genera have illustrations (b&amp;w). V.2 carries the index for both volumes. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii (BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP MUSEUM SPECIAL PUBLICATION)

Education & Teaching

Herbst, Derral R.

Wagner, Warren L.

Sohmer, S. H.

Schools & Teaching

This small book is a study of role of the dog in ancient Pacific islands. Its role in Pacific life was important but not noble. It was highly regarded as an article of food, more so than the pig. This book breaks down the dog's role by island or island group starting in the Hawaiian Islands and heading south through Australia. Illustrated with photographs and drawings.

Dog and Man in the Ancient Pacific (Special Publication Ser, No 59)

Margaret Titcomb

From the back cover: Originally published in 1972, Native Planters in Old Hawaii: Their Life, Lore, and Environment (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 233) remains one of the most important ethnographic works on traditional Hawaiian culture. It has been reprinted here for the first time with an index to subjects and chants, making this edition invaluable for scholars and laymen alike. This pioneering study of cultivation practices, beliefs, and rituals is the fruit of a brilliant collaborative effort between the eminent Pacific anthropologist, E.S. Craighill Handy, and his wife, Elizabeth, and the noted authority on Hawaiian language and culture, Mary Kawene Pukui. The authors maintain that "the Hawaiians, more than any other Polynesians, were a people whose means of livelihood, whose work and interests, were centered on cultivation of the soil," and that horticultural practices and rituals provide keys to understanding the culture as a whole. The book begins by discussing the basic patterns of Hawaiian planting culture, the gods worshiped, class and land divisions, water rights and irrigation techniques, tools, crafts, and general horticultural skills. Considering the different habitats of each island, the authors show how the people shaped their cultivation practices to the varied Hawaiian environment. Descriptions of myth and ritual connected to planting, including the central role of the Makahiki harvest festival, support the theme that Hawaiian identity is closely ties to the land.

Native Planters in Old Hawaii: Their Life, Lore, and Environment (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 233)

Politics & Social Sciences

Handy, Elizabeth Green

Social Sciences

``This volume offers a singular account of Hawaiian culture and society in pre-Christian times. This eengrossing study, completed in 1839, tells us of the material world of Hawaiians, as well as their origins, myths and beliefs. Born in 1795 and raised among chiefs, priests, artisans and scholars in the court of Kamehameha I, Malo provides one of the few authentic sources of information on the ancient beliefs and practices of Hawaiians. Malo was among the first Hawaiians to study with the missionaries. Although he was influenced by Christian teachings, he had been brought up under the traditional Hawaiian kapu system and his writings embody Hawaiian patterns of thought."

Hawaiian Antiquities (BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP MUSEUM SPECIAL PUBLICATION)

History

David Malo

Americas

1976, First edition. 372 pages, illustrated, six indexes. A collection of almost 3000 Hawaiian-language proverbs and poetical sayings representing over 50 years of collecting, translating, and research by Mary Kawena Pukui.

Works of the People of Old: Na Hana a Ka Po'E Kahiko

Kamakau, Samuel Mānaiakalani

Book by Haddon, Alfred C., Hornell, James

Canoes of Oceania

Hornell, James

Haddon, Alfred C.

Water Sports

Cook Voyage Artifacts in Leningrad, Berne & Florence Museums (Special Publication Series, No 66)

World

Artificial Curiosities: Being an Exposition of Native Manufactures Collected on the Three Pacific Voyages of Captain James Cook, R. N., at the Bernice ... Museum (Special Publication Ser. No. 65)

Kaeppler, Adrienne L.

Hawaiian Marine Shells Reef and Shore Fauna of Hawaii Section Four: Mollusca

Science & Math

E. Alison Kay

Biological Sciences

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