Selections from Fornander's Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-Lore

Samuel H. Elbert

University of Hawaii Press, Jan 1, 1959 - Social Science - 305 pages

"A valuable library addition for either a folklorist, a linguist, or an ethnologist." --Western Folklore "The stories in this book are reprinted from Volumes IV and V of The Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-lore, published by the Bernice P. Bishop Museum in 1917, 1918, and 1919. They include some of the best-loved of Hawaiian stories, and the collection is probably the most important work on a traditional subject ever published in the Hawaiian language.... In the 1860s and 1870s, Abraham Fornander, circuit judge of Maui, employed several Hawaiians to seek out learned Hawaiians and write down their stories. The collectors included S. N. Kamakau, S. Haleole, and Kepelino Keauokalani, each of whom has made important contributions to our knowledge of the old culture." -from the Introduction

Contents

• LEGEND OF IWA: 4
• LEGEND OF KAWELO: 18
• STORY OF UMI: 86
• LEGEND OF PUPUKEA: 150
• TRADITION OF KAMAPUAA: 168
• LEGEND OF HALEMANO: 222
• NOTES: 268

About the author

Samuel H. Elbert, professor emeritus of Pacific languages and linguistics at the University of Hawaii, taught the Hawaiian language for many years and is considered one of the foremost authorities on the language today. He is author of the textbook Spoken Hawaiian and is co-author with Mary Pukui of Hawaiian Dictionary, and with Mary Pukui and Esther Mookini of Place Names of Hawaii.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Selections from Fornander's Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-Lore
• Editor: Samuel H. Elbert
• Illustrated by: Jean Charlot
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press, 1959
• ISBN: 0870222139, 9780870222139
• Length: 305 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / Folklore & Mythology