Arts and Crafts of Hawaii (ebook)

Arts and Crafts of Hawaii (ebook)Arts and Crafts of Hawaii stands alone as the definitive work on Hawaiian material culture. Sir Peter H. Buck (Te Rangi Hiroa), director of Bishop Museum from 1936 until his death in 1951, divided Hawaiian material culture into 13 major groupings, each meticulously detailed and well illustrated. Buck guides the reader through every major element of Hawaiian life, providing descriptions of traditional objects, methods of construction, and traditional

Howard Hitchcock

Pages: 219

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cultural history

Date of Publication: August 15

Written by Peter H

Date of Publication: June 14

and marine ecosystems for tropical island environments

they have been the foundation of Hawaiian knowledge for most readers

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and fishermen

this classic work remains invaluable to scholars and practitioners alike as both a precious ethnographic resource on Hawaiian planting practices and as an in-depth examination of Hawaiians’ relationship to land