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Resources for

Hawai'i:  Center of the Pacific

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Polynesian Ancestral Relations with Hawaiians

Books
General Sources
Aotearoa (New Zealand)
Cook Islands
Hawai'i
Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
Samoa
Tahiti
Tokelau
Tonga
Other Books & Ebooks

Websites

Hawaiian Fonts & Keyboards

Books in the WCC Library

General Sources

Bellwood, Peter S.
The Polynesians : prehistory of an island people.
 

London: Thames and Hudson, 1987.
GN670 .B36x 1987b

Cox, Paul Alan Cox and Sandra Anne Banack Islands, eds.
Islands, plants, and Polynesians: an introduction to Polynesian ethnobotany.

Portland, Or: Dioscorides Press, c1991.

GN670 .I85 1991

Crawford, Peter.
Nomads of the wind: a natural history of Polynesia.

London: BBC Books, 1993.
DU510 .C738 1993

Ellis, William, 1794-1872.
Polynesian researches: Polynesia.

Rutland, Vt.: C. E. Tuttle Co., [1969]

DU510 .E48 1969

Gell, Alfred.
Wrapping in images : tattooing in Polynesia.
 
Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1993

GN670 .G35 1993

Goldman, Irving.
Ancient Polynesian society.

Chicago, University of Chicago Press [1970]

DU510 .G58 1970  

Greene, Linda Wedel.
A Cultural History of Three Traditional Hawaiian Sites on the West Coast of Hawai'i Island.
United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Denver Service Center, September 1993.
http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/kona/history.htm

Hooper, Steven. Pacific
Encounters: Art & Divinity in Polynesia 1760-1860.

Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2006.

DU510 .H667 2006b

Kaeppler, Adrienne L.
The Pacific Arts of Polynesia and Micronesia
.
Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.  

N7410 .K35 2008

Kirch, Patrick Vinton.
The Evolution of Polynesian Chiefdoms.

Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.  

Hawn GN670 .K56 1984

Kirch, Patrick Vinton. On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands.
Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2000. (on order at Windward)

Lal, Brij V and Kate Fortune.
The Pacific Islands: an encyclopedia.

University of Hawaii Press, 2000.

DU17. P3 2000 (also REF copy)

Oliver, Douglas L.
Native cultures of the Pacific islands.
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1989.

GN662 .O45 1989  

Oliver, Douglas L.
Oceania : the native cultures of Australia and the Pacific Islands.  
Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c1989. 2 vols.

GN662 .O46 1989

Oliver, Douglas
Polynesia in Early Historic Times
.
Honolulu, Hawaii: Bess Press Publishing, 2002.  
DU510 .O45 2002

Price, Christine.
Made in the South Pacific : arts of the sea people
.
New York: Dutton, c1979.
N7410 .P74 1979

Aotearoa (New Zealand)

Bigwood, Kenneth. The New Zealand Maori in colour. Rutland, Vt., Tuttle [1970, c1963].

DU423 .B5 1970

Orbell, Margaret Rose. The natural world of the Maori. Dobbs Ferry, NY: Sheridan House, 1985.

DU423.A1 O73 1985

Cook Islands

Akono'anga Maori = Cook Islands culture.
Suva, Fiji; Rarotonga, Cook Islands: Institute of Pacific Studies and Cook Islands Extension Centre, University of the South Pacific in association with the Cook Islands Cultural and Historic Places Trust and the Ministry of Cultural Development, 2003.

GN671.C6 C66 2003

Hawai'i

Abbott, Isabella Aiona.
La
'au Hawai'i: traditional Hawaiian uses of plants.
Honolulu, HI: Bishop Museum Press, 1992.
HAWN QK473.H4 A33 1992

Ancient Hawaiian civilization: a series of lectures delivered at the Kamehameha Schools.
Honolulu, Hawaii: Mutual Publishing, 1999.

HAWN DU624.5 .A6 1999

Buck, Peter Henry.  
Arts and crafts of Hawaii.
Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, [2003].
HAWN DU624.7 .B75 2003

Kane, Herbert Kawainui.
Ancient Hawai
'i.
Captain Cook, Hawai
'i : Kawainui Press, c1997.
HAWN DU624.65 .K37 1997

Kepelino.
Kepelino's traditions of Hawaii.

Rev. ed. Honolulu : Bishop Museum Press, 2007.

HAWN GN671.H3 K46 2007

Krauss, Beatrice H.
Plants in Hawaiian culture.

Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993.

HAWN DU624.65 .K72 1993

Young, David G.
Na mea makamae : Hawaiian treasures
.
Kailua-Kona, Hawai
'i : Palapala Press, c1999.
HAWN DU624.65 .Y67 1999

Rapa Nui (Easter Island)

Barthel, Thomas S.
The eighth land: the Polynesian discovery and settlement of Easter Island.

Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, c1978.

F3169 B3713

McCall, Grant.
Rapanui : tradition and survival on Easter Island.

2nd ed. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994.

F3169 .M37 1994

Samoa

Holmes, Lowell Don.
Samoan village.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1974].

DU819.F58 H65

Lay, Graeme.
Samoa: Pacific pride.

Auckland, N.Z.: Pasifika Press, 2000.

DU815 .L39 2000

Samoana [videorecording]
Sydney, Australia: Government of Samoa and Juniper Films, c2001.

DU819.A2 S2 2001

Suápaía, Kipeni.
Samoa, the Polynesian paradise; an introduction to ancient and modern Samoa and the Polynesian triangle.

New York: Expositon Press [1962]

DU813 .S95

Turner, George.
Samoa, a hundred years ago and long before.
New York: AMS Press, 1979.

DU813 .T9 1979

Tahiti

Oliver, Douglas L.
Ancient Tahitian society
.
Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, [1974] 3 v.

DU870 O43

Rodgers, Hilary.
Tahiti & French Polynesia.
6th ed.
Melbourne; Oakland [Calif.]: Lonely Planet Publications, 2003.
DU870 .K3 2003

Tokelau

Matagi Tokelau : history and traditions of Tokelau.
[translated by Anthony Hooper and Judith Huntsman] Apia, Western Samoa: Office for Tokelau Affairs; Suva, Fiji: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, c1991.

DU910.5 .M37 1991

Tonga

Bott, Elizabeth.
Tongan Society at the time of Captain Cook's visits : discussions with Her Majesty Queen Sālote Tupou.  
Wellington, N.Z.: The Polynesian Society (Incorporated), 1982.

DU880 .B67 1982

Evans, Mike.  
Persistence of the gift: Tongan tradition in transnational context
.
Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2001.

DU880 .E92 2001

St. Cartmail, Keith.
The art of Tonga
.
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1997.
GN671.T5 S7 1997

Tonga.
Hawthorn, Vic., Australia; Berkeley, CA, USA : Lonely Planet, 1990-
DU880 .F53

Other Books and eBooks

Find other books, videos, sound recordings, etc., in the UH Libraries with the Hawaii Voyager Catalog

Find ebooks from ebrary including books on all subjects (Off-campus login with UH ID Number)

Find ebooks from NetLibrary  including books from UH Press. (Create an account on campus, then access from anywhere)

Websites

Polynesian Voyaging Society.   Contains a comprehensive body of information regarding traditional celestial navigation.  Links to historical, ethnobotany, cultural and marine sites are posted.

Polynesian Cultural Center: Polynesian culture.   Section on Polynesian culture provides information on the culture, customs, and spirit of the people of Polynesia.

Polynesians.   Provides background material on the Polynesians

Ulukau: The Hawaiian Electronic Library.  Provides access to Hawaiian-English dictionaries, searchable Hawaiian language newspapers, the Legacy Journal of Hawaiian Language Sources, Hawaiian Genealogy indexes, Mahele Database, Hawaiian Place Names, a photograph collection, and other books.

UH Manoa Library Digital and Digitized Collections. Includes The Annexation Of Hawai‘i, Fong Congretional Papers, War Records, and more.

Hawaiian Language Newspaper Project from the University of Hawaii. Digitized newspapers from the mid-nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries. Notice the links to other Hawaiian newspapers on the left.

Hawaiian Newspapers (via Ulukau). Images and some text from Hawaiian-language newspapers. Webpage navigation is in English and Hawaiian.

Hawaiian Fonts and Keyboards

Hawaiian Language Online. from the University of Hawaii. This has an online application to help your web browser display Hawaiian diacritics.

Macintosh ResourcesFrom Olelo.

Windows Resources. From Olelo.

Compiled by Nancy Heu. Updated 8/27/09