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Title: Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-lore..,. [Third Series, Part Two]
Description: Honolulu, Hawaii, Bishop Museum Press, 1919. orig. wrappers. 32x24cm, (132) pp. Series: Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Volume VI, No. 2.. Rubbed. Corners bumped. Some spine tears. Good. ¶ Pagination runs (4), 223- 358. Full title reads: "Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk- lore: The Hawaiians' Account of the Formation of their Islands and Origin of their Race, with the Traditions of their Migrations, etc. as Gathered from Original Sources by Abraham Fornander, with Translations Edited and Illustrated with Notes by Thomas G.Thrum". Contents: Source & Migration of the Polynesian Race; Traditional Hawaiian History; Hawaiian Origins: Comparative Traditions: Viti- Fiji- New Zealand- Tonga Islands -Marquesas; Legend of Hawaii-Loa; The Story of Kahahana; A Lamentation for Kahahana; On Hawaiian Rank; Chronological List;Events in Hawaiian History; Traditional & Genealogical Notes; Hawaiian Genealogy; Notes on the Polynesian Calendar; Creation Myths; Traditionary Voyages; On the word Amana; Philological & Miscellaneous Notes; Things Similar in India, etc, and Polynesia; The Numerical System, Comparative.

Keywords: Hawaiian Mythology, Hawaii, Polynesia, Polynesian, Anthropology, Ethnology, Folklore, Language, Oral Literature, History

Price: US$ 98.00 Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark
- Book number: BOOKS029506I