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Ahupuaa Research: Reference Books

Ahupuaa Research

Dictionaries, Proverbs, Rain & Wind Names

Dictionaries

Hawaiian Dictionary by Mary Kawena Pukui, Samuel H. Elbert
Call Number: HAWN REFERENCE PL6446 .P795 1991
Available Online Here
Place Names of Hawaii by Mary Kawena Pukui, Samuel H. Elbert, Esther T. Mookini
Call Number: DU622 .P79 1976
Publication Date: 1976
Available online from Ulukau.
Hawaii Place Names: Shores, Beaches, and Surf Sites by John R.K. Clark
Call Number: DU622 .C546 2002
ISBN: 0824824512
Publication Date: 2002
Available online with UHM login.
Available online from Ulukau.
Hawaiian street names : the complete guide to Oʻahu street names by Budnick, Rich.; Wise, Duke Kalani
Publication Date: 1993
Not available online.

Proverbs

ʻŌlelo Noʻeau: Hawaiian Proverbs & Poetical Sayings by Mary Kawena Pukui
Call Number: PN6519.H4 P84 1983
ISBN: 0910240922
Publication Date: 1983
Available online through HathiTrust ETAS. You must be logged in to HathiTrust - click the yellow “LOG IN” button on a HathiTrust page, select “University of Hawaii” and log in using your UH login credentials.

Rain & Wind Names

Index of rains by Genie Alvarado
Call Number: PL6449 .A48 2005a
Publication Date: 2005
Available online (PDF) by name and by island.
Index of winds by Genie Alvarado
Call Number: PL6449 .A49 2005
Publication Date: 2005
Available online (PDF) by name and by island.
Hānau ka ua : Hawaiian rain names by Collette Leimomi Akana, with Kiele Gonzalez
Call Number: PL6449 .A43 2015
ISBN: 0873362462
Publication Date: 2015

Culture, Archaeology, History, & Heiau

Culture

Hawaiian Mythology by Martha Beckwith
Call Number: GR385 .B43 1976
Publication Date: 1976
Available online.
Other editions available: 1940 and 1970.
Part 1. The gods. Coming of the gods
Part 2. Children of the gods. The Pele myth
Part 3. The chiefs. Papa and Wakea - Genealogies
Part 4. Heroes and lovers in fiction. Kupua stories - Trickster stories - Voyage to the land of the gods.

Archaeology & Historical Accounts

Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii by Samuel M. Kamakau
Call Number: DU624.65 .K3413 1992
Publication Date: 1992
Available Online Here.
Based on Kamakau's articles in Hawaiian language newspapers, including information on ali'i to the 1840s. Numerous appendices on battles, dates, heiau, mele and chants, proverbs, genealogies.
Sites of Oahu by Elspeth P. Sterling
Call Number: DU628.O3 S8 1993
Publication Date: 1993
Available online through HathiTrust ETAS. You must be logged in to HathiTrust - click the yellow “LOG IN” button on a HathiTrust page, select “University of Hawaii” and log in using your UH login credentials.
Detailed index available online on Ulukau.
Earlier edition: 1978.
Ancient Sites of Oʻahu: A Guide to Hawaiian Archaeological Places of Interest by Van James
Call Number: DU624.65 .J36 2010
Publication Date: 2010
Native Planters in Old Hawaii: Their Life, Lore, and Environment by Handy, E.S. Craighill, Elizabeth Green Handy, and Mary Kawena Pukui
Call Number: AM101 .B442 no.233 1991
ISBN: 9780910240116
Publication Date: 1972
Available online through HathiTrust ETAS. You must be logged in to HathiTrust - click the yellow “LOG IN” button on a HathiTrust page, select “University of Hawaii” and log in using your UH login credentials.
Details Hawaiian land tenure and horticulture prior to Euro-American contact. Divided into five parts: 1) Prehistoric Perspective, 2) Plants and animals in the Hawaiian economy, 3) Demography of the Hawaiian Islands, 4) The Makahiki Harvest Festival, and 5) Descriptions of areas of habitation on each island.
Archaeology of Oahu by J. Gilbert McAllister
Call Number: AM101 .B442 no.104a
Available Online Here
Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-lore, Vol. 4-6 by Abraham Fornander
Call Number: AM101 .B4473 (volumes 4, 5, and 6)
Publication Date: 1985
Available online from Ulukau.
Text in Hawaiian and English.
Hawaiian antiquities = (Moolelo Hawaii) by David Malo
Call Number: DU625 .M252 1971
ISBN: 0910240159
Publication Date: 1971
Available online.
Earlier edition: 1951.
A definitive resource upon which much scholarship is now based, Malo's work provides a look at the traditions as they existed in the first half of the 19th century. It includes some of the prayers and beliefs that pertained to the building of a canoe.

Heiau

Complete List of Heiaus (temples) and Sites by Thomas Thrum
Call Number: REPRINT H023.13
Publication Date: 1938
From: Thrumʻs Hawaiian Annual for 1938, the reference book of information and statistics relating to the Territory of Hawaii, of value to merchants, tourists and others (1938), pp. 121-142.
Includes Hawaii, Maui, Molokai, Lanai, Oahu, and Kauai.
Completing Oahu's Heiau Search by Thomas Thrum
Publication Date: 1915
Available Online Here
Heiaus and Heiau Sites throughout the Hawaiian Islands; Ommiting Koas, or Places of Offering to Kuula, the Deity of Fisher Folk by Thomas Thrum
Publication Date: 1906
Available Online Here

Mele, Photographs & Maps

Mele

Nā mele o Hawaiʻi Nei: 101 Hawaiian songs by Samuel H. Elbert and Noelani Mahoe
Call Number: M1844.H3 E4
ISBN: 0870222198
Publication Date: 1970
Available online

Photographs

Hawaiian Yesterdays, Historical Photographs by Ray Jerome Baker
Call Number: DU623 .B224
ISBN: 0935180036
Publication Date: 1982
Saga of the Sandwich Islands by Edward B. Scott
Call Number: DU623 .S37 v.1
Publication Date: 1968
Heavily illustrated survey of the history of Hawaii, to 1968, focusing on Honolulu and Oahu.
Hawaiʻi Looking Back, an Illustrated History of the Islands by Glen Grant, Bennett Hymer and the Bishop Museum Archives
Call Number: DU625 .G736 2000
ISBN: 1566473470
Publication Date: 2000
Missionary Album by Hawaiian Mission Children's Society
Call Number: BV3680.H4 A2 1969
Publication Date: 1969

Maps

The Early Mapping of Hawaii by Gary L. Fitzpatrick
Call Number: GA419.5 .P34 1986 v.1
Publication Date: 1986
Available online.
Surveying the Mahele: Mapping the Hawaiian Land Revolution by Riley M. Moffat and Gary L. Fitzpatrick
Call Number: GA419.5 .P34 1986 v.2
ISBN: 0915013177
Publication Date: 1995
Available online.