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Reprinted: 2024
the so-called “canoe plants” brought to the islands by the first settlers over a millenium and a half ago and embraced by those ancient Hawaiians as essential physical and spiritual components of their daily lives
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Each species account accompanying the photographs is divided into three parts
Hula Pahu, Hawaiian Drum Dances, Volume II: The Pahu, Sounds of Power Language Reprinted: 2024Because of its origins in legendary times, its religious connections, and its powerful sounds, the pahu is of singular importance in Hawaiian culture. In this thoroughly engrossing study, Elizabeth Tatar sets out to reconstruct the earliest vocabulary of Hawaiian chant and drumming. She surveys the evidence for the mythological origins of pahu, identifies similar sharkskin covered drums elsewhere in Polynesia, and discusses the physical attributes of
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