Author: Fornander, Abraham [1812-1887] ; compiler : [ Thrum, Thomas George (1843-1932) ; editor :]
Title: Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-lore.,. [Third Series, Part Three]
Description: Honolulu, Hawaii, Bishop Museum Press,, 1920. Later cloth. 32x23cm, xiii,(185) pp. Weighs 1.5 kilos. Later [recent] binder's blind cloth with original front and rear cover wrappers bound-in.. Minor wear. VG. ¶ Series: Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Volume VI, No. 3. Pagination runs xiii, [360] - 545. 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: A Wakea Creation Chant; Nord Was the Island; Old Creation Chant; Primary Gods & Creations; The Fall of Kumuhonua and His Wife; The Flood; [with numerous other songs and chants in Hawaiian with Parallel English translation].

Keywords: Hawaiian Mythology, Hawaii, Polynesia, Ethnology, Anthropology, Oral Literature, Ethnography, Polynesian,