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Book Hawaiian Canoe building Traditions

Download or read book Hawaiian Canoe building Traditions written by Naomi N. Y. Chun and published by . This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A textbook and workbook describing the steps followed by Hawaiians in building their ancient canoes and providing vocabulary quizzes, word games, true and false questions, and other activities relating to this cultural tradition.

Book Hawaiian Canoe building Traditions

Download or read book Hawaiian Canoe building Traditions written by Naomi N. Y. Chun and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A textbook and workbook describing the steps followed by Hawaiians in building their ancient canoes and providing vocabulary quizzes, word games, true and false questions, and other activities relating to this cultural tradition.

Book The Tastes and Tales of Moiliili

Download or read book The Tastes and Tales of Moiliili written by Moiliili Community Members and published by Moliliili Community Center. This book was released on 1995-05-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Building Outrigger Sailing Canoes

Download or read book Building Outrigger Sailing Canoes written by Gary Dierking and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2007-09-05 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build the fastest, most exotic sailboats around! Popular in Hawaii and throughout the South Pacific and Indian Oceans, outrigger canoes combine the romance of the South Seas with a ruthless efficiency of design and breathtaking sailing performance. This is the first book to present complete plans and building instructions for three outrigger sailing canoes. Based on traditional Hawaiian and Micronesian types, the designs are lightweight, easy to build, and screamingly fast. Author Gary Dierking shows you how to build these boats using stitch-and-glue and strip-planking construction, explains what tools and materials are required, how to rig and equip the boats, and more.

Book The Hawaiian Canoe

Download or read book The Hawaiian Canoe written by Tommy Holmes and published by Editions, Limited. This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Origins -- voyaging -- Materials -- Tools -- Canoe building -- Accessories -- Paddles -- Design -- Canoeing skills -- Canoe ladders -- surfing -- Fishing -- War -- Racing canoes -- Canoe racing -- Petroglyphs -- Burial canoes.

Book Ka  nu Culture

Download or read book Ka nu Culture written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In the Wake of Our Ancestors

Download or read book In the Wake of Our Ancestors written by Gail (PRD) Evenari and published by Maiden Voyage Productions. This book was released on 1992-06-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Kodoku

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kenichi Horie
  • Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
  • Release : 2014-03-25
  • ISBN : 1462913342
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book Kodoku written by Kenichi Horie and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kodoku is the true story of a young Japanese sailor whose fascination with the art of sailing led him on a solo trans-Pacific journey. First described in a best-selling Japanese book, then an internationally acclaimed motion picture, Kodoku is the full record of the background, conception, preparation, and execution of this daring, yet carefully planned adventure. It includes not only the full text of his original log, but also his supplementary comments, adding detail and highlight to the day-to-day experiences recorded in the log. Also included are charts, plans, and a diagram comparing some of the more noteworthy craft that sailed the open seas in the past. The 61 photographs, including 43 taken by Horie himself during the trip, add a vivid touch to this fascinating story of courage, tenacity, adventure, and humor.

Book Hawaiian Canoe

    Book Details:
  • Author : Holmes
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 1989-01-04
  • ISBN : 9780710303400
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book Hawaiian Canoe written by Holmes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1989-01-04 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Canoe construction in a Cree cultural tradition

Download or read book Canoe construction in a Cree cultural tradition written by James Garth Taylor and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines Eastern Cree canoe construction from a variety of anthropological and historical perspectives. The fully detailed and illustrated technical aspects of canoe construction are combined with a description of the social and economic factors, the canoe builder’s view of these activities through myth and song and a discussion of the continuity and change in all aspects of traditional canoe construction.

Book Paradise of the Pacific

Download or read book Paradise of the Pacific written by Susanna Moore and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Hawaii may be said to be the story of arrivals -- from the eruption of volcanoes on the ocean floor 18,000 feet below to the first hardy seeds that over millennia found their way to the islands, and the confused birds blown from their migratory routes. Early Polynesian adventurers sailed across the Pacific in double canoes. Spanish galleons en route to the Philippines and British navigators in search of a Northwest Passage were soon followed by pious Protestant missionaries, shipwrecked sailors, and rowdy Irish poachers escaped from Botany Bay -- all wanderers washed ashore. This is true of many cultures, but in Hawaii, no one seems to have left. And in Hawaii, a set of myths accompanied each of these migrants -- legends that shape our understanding of this mysterious place. Susanna Moore pieces together the story of late-eighteenth-century Hawaii -- its kings and queens, gods and goddesses, missionaries, migrants, and explorers -- a not-so-distant time of abrupt transition, in which an isolated pagan world of human sacrifice and strict taboo, without a currency or a written language, was confronted with the equally ritualized world of capitalism, Western education, and Christian values.

Book Breaking the Shell

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joseph H. Genz
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2018-02-28
  • ISBN : 0824867912
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book Breaking the Shell written by Joseph H. Genz and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the atoll of Rongelap in the northern seas of the Marshall Islands, apprentice navigators once learned to find their way across the ocean by remotely sensing how islands transform the patterning of swell and currents. Renowned for their instructional stick charts that model and map the interplay of islands and waves, these students of wave piloting techniques embarked on trial voyages to ruprup jo̧kur, a Marshallese expression roughly translated as “breaking the shell” of the turtle, which would confer their status as navigators. These traditional practices, already in decline with imposing colonial occupations, came to an abrupt halt with the Cold War–era nuclear weapons testing program conducted by the United States. The residents and their descendants are still trying to recover from the myriad environmental, biological, social, and psychological impacts of the nuclear tests. Breaking the Shell presents the journey of Captain Korent Joel, who, having been forced into exile from the near-apocalyptic thermonuclear Bravo test of 1954, has reconnected to his ancestral maritime heritage and forged an unprecedented path toward becoming a navigator. Paralleling the Hawaiian renaissance that centered on Nainoa Thompson learning from Satawalese navigator Mau Piailug, the beginnings of the Marshallese voyaging revitalization—a collaborative, community-based project spanning the fields of anthropology, history, and oceanography—involved blending scientific knowledge systems, resolving ambivalence in nearly forgotten navigational techniques, and deftly negotiating cultural protocols of knowledge use and transmission. Through Captain Korent’s own voyaging trial, he and a group of surviving mariners from Rongelap are, against one of the darkest hours in human history, “breaking the shell” of their prime identity as nuclear refugees to begin recovering their most intimate of connections to the sea. Ultimately these efforts would inaugurate the return of the traditional outrigger voyaging canoe for the greater Marshallese nation, an achievement that may work toward easing ethnic tensions abroad and ensure cultural survival in their battle against the looming climate change–induced rising ocean. Drawing attention to cultural rediscovery, revitalization, and resilience in Oceania, the Marshallese are once again celebrating their existence as a people born to the rhythms of the sea.

Book Hawaiian Antiquities

Download or read book Hawaiian Antiquities written by Davida Malo and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stone Tool Traditions in the Contact Era

Download or read book Stone Tool Traditions in the Contact Era written by Charles Cobb and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2003-09-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive analysis of the partial replacement of flaked stone and ground stone traditions by metal tools in the Americas during the Contact Era. It examines the functional, symbolic, and economic consequences of that replacement on the lifeways of native populations, even as lithic technologies persisted well after the landing of Columbus. Ranging across North America and to Hawai'i, the studies show that, even with wide access to metal objects, Native Americans continued to produce certain stone tool types - perhaps because they were still the best implements for a task or because they represented a deep commitment to a traditional practice. Chapters are ordered in terms of relative degree of European contact, beginning with groups that experienced brief episodes of interaction, such as the Wichita-French meeting on the Arkansas River, and ending with societies that were heavily influenced by colonization, such as the Potawatomi of Illinois. Because the anthology draws comparisons between the persistence of stone tools and the continuity of other indigenous crafts, it presents holistic models that can be used to explain the larger consequences of the Contact

Book The Legends and Myths of Hawaii

Download or read book The Legends and Myths of Hawaii written by David Kalakaua (King of Hawaii) and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hawaiki Rising

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sam Low
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2019-11-30
  • ISBN : 0824875249
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Hawaiki Rising written by Sam Low and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-11-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attuned to a world of natural signs—the stars, the winds, the curl of ocean swells—Polynesian explorers navigated for thousands of miles without charts or instruments. They sailed against prevailing winds and currents aboard powerful double canoes to settle the vast Pacific Ocean. And they did this when Greek mariners still hugged the coast of an inland sea, and Europe was populated by stone-age farmers. Yet by the turn of the twentieth century, this story had been lost and Polynesians had become an oppressed minority in their own land. Then, in 1975, a replica of an ancient Hawaiian canoe—Hōkūle‘a—was launched to sail the ancient star paths, and help Hawaiians reclaim pride in the accomplishments of their ancestors. Hawaiki Rising tells this story in the words of the men and women who created and sailed aboard Hōkūle‘a. They speak of growing up at a time when their Hawaiian culture was in danger of extinction; of their vision of sailing ancestral sea-routes; and of the heartbreaking loss of Eddie Aikau in a courageous effort to save his crewmates when Hōkūle‘a capsized in a raging storm. We join a young Hawaiian, Nainoa Thompson, as he rediscovers the ancient star signs that guided his ancestors, navigates Hōkūle‘a to Tahiti, and becomes the first Hawaiian to find distant landfall without charts or instruments in a thousand years. Hawaiki Rising is the saga of an astonishing revival of indigenous culture by voyagers who took hold of the old story and sailed deep into their ancestral past.