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Historic 19th century house museum with Hawaiian history and art, collection of land snails Baldwin Home Museum: Lahaina: Maui: Historic house: website, operated by Lahaina Restoration Foundation, mid-19th century missionary home Bernice P. Bishop Museum: Honolulu: Oahu: Multiple: Art, Hawaiian history and culture, Pacific cultures, science ...
In 1927 the Daughters of Hawaiʻi, a group dedicated to preserving the cultural legacy of the Hawaiian Islands, restored Huliheʻe Palace and turned it into a museum. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings on the island of Hawaii in 1973 as site 73000653.
The Haena Archeological Complex, on Kauai near Hanalei, Hawaii, is an archeological site complex that is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. [1]It includes several sites: (1) house of high chief Lohiʻau (lover of Hi'iaka); (2) Ke-ahu-a-Laka hālau hula platform; (3) Ka-ulu-a-paʻoa heiau platform [3] It dates from c.1600 and is listed on the National Register for its ...
La`a-maikahiki seems to have set great store by his drum, his priests and his idol, and always kept them by him even in his travels. In Trum’s Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends, page 187 he tells of a drum called the "pahu ka`eke" in the story of Ai Kanaka. Below is what is widely believed today among hula practitioners.
The society restored the former store to its appearance circa 1875, and opened it as a museum. The store was added as site 10-37-7243 to the state of Hawaii registry of historic places on August 17, 1991. [4] Another nearby Greenwell property, the Kona Coffee Living History Farm, is also open for tours by the society. [5]
The Polynesian Cultural Center (PCC) is a family-centered cultural tourist attraction and living museum in Laie on the northern shore of Oahu, Hawaii. [1] The PCC is owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), was dedicated on October 12, 1963, and occupies 42 acres (17 hectares) of land belonging to nearby Brigham Young University–Hawaii (BYU-Hawaii).
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The museum traces the history of art in Hawai‘i, with a gallery dedicated to Hawaiian traditional arts, art by Hawai‘i artists, and art of Hawai‘i. Ahu 'ula (feather cape), late 18th-early 19th century. 25 × 30 1/2 in. Feathers, ʻōʻō feathers (Moho spp.), 'i'iwi feathers (Vestiaria coccinea), olonā bark (Touchardia latifolia).