This is the story of a people of an ocean world: how they
found the most remote islands on Earth, how they lived, how they viewed
themselves and their universe, and how—without metals or the fuels and
inventions necessary for life today—they survived and prospered.
Adventure back in time to meet "the Hawaiians of
Old," the people of an era of more than 1,600 years, extending from the moment
of Polynesian discovery to the landing of European explorers.
Profusely illustrated in full color, Ancient
Hawai'i is an introduction to such topics as Hawaiian origins, mythical
beginnings, spiritual concepts and priests, the power of chiefs and elders, the
extended family, the balance of opposites, male-female relationships,
mana and kapu, the lives of commoners, voyaging and navigation,
land tenure, exchange of goods and services, weapons and warfare, the Makahiki
season, fishing, plants and planting, medicine, material arts, domestic arts,
performing arts, feats of memory, stone working, house and canoe construction,
sports and entertainments.
This book is available in hard or soft cover.
Prices
include shipment to the mainland.
Soft
Cover $13.50
Hard Cover $17.50
Optional signature by the
artist.
Note: selecting this option once will cause all purchases
from Herb Kane in this order to be signed. ... $5.00 additional.
Link to on-line publication,
Ancient Hawaii.
Link to time travel: 1779
AD.
Link to Herb Kane's home page.
Link to Hawaiian books index page.
Ancient Hawaii by Herb
Kawainui Kane.
Published by Kawainui Press, 1998
