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Excerpt from A Handbook for Visitors to the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural HistoryVisitors will deposit all sticks and umbrellas in the rack provided near the entrance. Gentlemen will remove their hats while in the building. Japanese must leave their wooden shoes in the porch.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis bo...

Excerpt from Old Hawaiian Carvings: Found in a Cave on the Island of HawaiiTo one familiar with these caves the vestibule, as it may be called, is the least interesting portion, it is a tunnel of varying Size and irregular section, Often shrink ing to a passage hardly large enough to admit a man's body, then expanding into a hall of considerable height, and with numerous ramifications, some small as rat holes, others of a size to admit a horse...

Excerpt from Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History, Vol. 1IN selecting the Stone Implements of the Ancient Hawaiians for the subject of the next chapter of what I had some years since intended should be a history of Hawaii, or rather of the Hawaiians before the advent of other and very different racial in¿uences, it may be fair to explain to my readers almost at the Start, my method in this fra...

Excerpt from Notes on the Volcanoes of the Hawaiian Islands: With a History of Their Various EruptionsFifteen miles from Kauai is the Island of Niihau, which is different in many respects from other islands of the group. It is twenty miles long by five wide, and consists of two portions, the mountain region, and the plain which meets this on three sides, the latter so low as to be almost invisible from Kauai. The mountain is not much channelle...

Excerpt from Additional Notes on Hawaiian Feather Work: Second SupplementSee the plate in the Atlas of Cook's Last Voyage. 2cook's Third Voyage, 1785. Second edition, p. (331.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work...

Excerpt from Additional Notes on Hawaiian Feather Work: Second SupplementSee the plate in the Atlas of Cook's Last Voyage. 2cook's Third Voyage, 1785. Second edition, p. (331.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work...

Excerpt from Ka Hana Kapa, Vol. 3: The Making of Bark-Cloth in HawaiiIn the light of our present knowledge of things Polynesian we cannot read again the fascinating pages of Cook's observations without wonder at the general accuracy of his accounts of what he saw, and we must acknowledge the debt we owe to him and the scientific men who were with him on his three voyages. The Forsters, Banks, Sparrman, Solander and others, and we must not forg...

Excerpt from Additional Notes on Hawaiian Feather Work, Vol. 1 of 7: Second Supplement, Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop MuseumSee the plate in the Atlas of Cook's Last Voyage. 2cook's Third Voyage, 1785. Second edition, p. 301.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses stat...

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About the Book Books about Anthropology delve into the behavior of societies in the past and in the present, examining social mores, language and social life. Titles include: An introduction to anthropology, a general survey of the early history of the human race, Anthropologie der Naturvölker, Anthropology and modern life, Social anthropology, Der Darwinismus gegen die Sozialdemokratie: Anthropologische Plaudereien, Stone Implements and Stone...

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Excerpt from Notes on the Volcanoes of the Hawaiian Islands: With a History of Their Various Eruptions Fifteen miles from Kauai is the Island of Niihau, which is different in many respects from other islands of the group. It is twenty miles long by five wide, and consists of two portions, the mountain region, and the plain which meets this on three sides, the latter so low as to be almost invisible from Kauai. The mountain is not much channel...

Excerpt from A Handbook for Visitors to the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural HistoryVisitors will deposit all sticks and umbrellas in the rack provided near the entrance. Gentlemen will remove their hats while in the building. Japanese must leave their wooden shoes in the porch.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis bo...

Excerpt from Ka Hana Kapa, Vol. 3: The Making of Bark-Cloth in Hawaii In the light of our present knowledge of things Polynesian we cannot read again the fascinating pages of Cook's observations without wonder at the general accuracy of his accounts of what he saw, and we must acknowledge the debt we owe to him and the scientific men who were with him on his three voyages. The Forsters, Banks, Sparrman, Solander and others, and we must not fo...

Excerpt from Additional Notes on Hawaiian Feather Work, Vol. 1 of 7: Second Supplement, Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop MuseumSee the plate in the Atlas of Cook's Last Voyage. 2cook's Third Voyage, 1785. Second edition, p. 301.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses stat...

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Excerpt from Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History, Vol. 1 IN selecting the Stone Implements of the Ancient Hawaiians for the subject of the next cha of what I had some years since intended should be a history of Hawaii, or rather of the Hawai before the advent of other and very different racial in¿uences, it may be fair to explain to readers, almost at the Start, my method in this fragmentary...

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