Sweet Emalia, that is Emalia Kaihumua, is now in the insane asylum [halemai pupule].
[After finding this abrupt notice, one would assume that now that Emalia was admitted into the insane asylum, other than escape, there would only be one way out...]
(Makaainana, 4/5/1897, p. 8)
Ka Makaainana, Buke VII—-Ano Hou, Helu 14, Aoao 8. Aperila 5, 1897.
J. U. Kawainui,
Aloha oe,
Here I am in California in good health. This is a very cold land, but there is always something new, there is no night here; the nights are like days.
These past few days, I have almost travelled all around the town; I went to visit the sugar refinery of the Millionaire², the place where they build warships, the place where money is minted, and the place where the soldiers drill (the Pressido [Presidio]).
I was at the Cliff House this past Thursday, it is a place that many visitors travel to, I saw the animals of the sea, but that place was very cold. After that, I went to the New City Hall and I spent almost a day visiting the various offices; it is a large structure perhaps eight times the size of Iolani Palace.
There are many poor people here with no place to sleep, and there are also many rich people.
PERTAINING TO THE GREAT EXHIBITION.
I went into the different exhibition halls of the Fair, so astonishing to see; there were all kinds of beautiful things.
I was in Alameda County, a large building, and within it, there was every variety of fruit.
Arizona Indian Building is the exhibition hall of the Indians [Ilikini]. There I saw their way of dancing; their dress is fine, but their dancing isn’t great.
I went into the building of hand crafts and saw the making of the clothes that we wear and so forth, and the exhibition hall of all kinds of animals. This week, one of the handlers was killed, mauled by a lion; the reason for this was the the lights went out when the handler was sweeping inside, at which point it jumped and tore at him. I saw the blood and the suit which is placed out as a display in the pen; today there was a service over his dead body. All the people in the fair attended the funeral, the Hawaiian youths sang in Hawaiian, “In Jesus’ Hands” ["Ma ko Iesu mau lima."] .
The most highly attended thing is the display of Kilauea in Hawaii; the haole men and women are very taken by Hawaiian things, but above all is the hula kui; all the time is filled with hula kui.
There are two bands constantly playing in the Park, but they aren’t good like the Hawaiian boys; I am always being asked by many people if I will be attending the college that John Wilson³ is attending; I have a letter urging me to go there (Stanford University).
James B. Pakele.
San Francisco, February 17, 1894.
¹”Ike ia Kaleponi he Aina Anu” hearkens back to the mele “E Nihi ka Hele”.
²Spreckels Sugar Company of Claus Spreckels, known here as the Ona Miliona [Millionaire].
³See more on John Henry Wilson in Men of Hawaii.
[For related articles and information, see the previous posts, and the posts soon to come as well! Oh... and coincidentally, i noticed i recently posted James B. Pakele's death announcement from 1913. He died at Queen's Hospital on January 30.]
(Kuokoa, 3/3/1894, p. 1)
Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke XXXIII, Helu 9, Aoao 1. Maraki 3, 1894.
According to what we understand and hear pertaining to the celebration of Lei Day, that being this Friday, the show put on will be great.
There will be two hula groups that will hula on that day, that being the hula troupe [Hui Lokelani] of Mrs. Rose Kuamoo and the Hui Huapala led by Albert Nahale-a. Other than these groups will be the Police Glee Club led by William K. Kahimoku (Kualii), and also the children of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kalima, and also perhaps some duets and some solos.
Last year, this show was held in the evening, beginning at 6:00, but this year, it can’t be put on in the late evening, but instead will be held at 3:00 p. m. This is times of blackout in this land, and we are not to turn on lights outside.
This show and hula will be held at Kalakaua Square, and we are lucky to have the military band join in and commemorate this day. There is nothing to be said about our County Band, for they have not dropped out of the activities of the day.
The activities of the day will begin with a concert put on by the military band at port here in Hilo, at 2:30 p. m. until 3:00 p. m., and the County band until 3:30 p. m. and followed by the other parts.
Here below is the program of events of that afternoon
Part I, Old Hawaiian Hula
1. “Ka La o Mei He La Lei Ia Ma Hawaii” [May Day is Lei Day in Hawaii] Police Glee Club, Lokelani, and Huapala.
2. “Oli” by Mary Ahiena
3. Old Hawaiian Hula, by the Hui Lokelani.
—a. Olapa — Niihau, Pua Hau o Maleka
—b. Puili — Malualua
—c. Iliili — Kona Hema
—d. Uliuli — Moku Kia Kahi, Alekoki
4. Combined Old Hawaiian Hula, by the Hui Huapala
—a. Puili & Uliuli — Nani Wale Na Hala
5. “Pua Mohala” by the Hilo Police Glee Club
Part II, Hawaiian Hula of Modern Times
1. “Kuikahi” by Huapala
2. A Hula for President Roosevelt, Lokelani
3. “Ua Hoomaka lakou i Kekahi Mea,” Frank Kahili
4. Holoholo Kaa, Huapala
5. “Loke Honesakala,” Ernest Hanaike and his Guitar
6. Nani Hilo, Lokelani
7. “Mele Maka Lalau” by Baby Kaieie
9. “Wiliwili Wai,” William Kualii
8. Aloha Ia No O Maui, Lokelani
10. Kona Hema, Huapala
11. My Sweet Sweetie, Three Children of Kalaima
12. Oahu, Lokelani
13. Ke Kali Nei Au, duet by Miss Kuaana Nathaniel and Joseph Kalima
14. Maikai Wale No Kauai, Lokelani
15. “TAHUAHUAI,” Abraham Laeha
16. Sasa & Somemore o Samoa, Huapala
17. THE CONCLUSION
—a. Hilo March — Lokelani
—b. “I Lei Nou” — Police Glee Club
—c. Leahi, Hanohano Hanalei — Huapala
18. ALOHA OE
19. STARS SPANGLED BANNER
(Hoku o Hawaii, 4/29/1942, p. 2)
Ka Hoku o Hawaii, Volume 37, Number 1, Page 2. Apelila 29, 1942.
After 3 o’clock in the afternoon of this Tuesday, the King, the Princes and Princesses, the dignitaries, and the makaainana sat at a long table housed by a pavilion with corrugated iron roofing [lanai pili hao], which could sit an estimated 600 to 900 people at a time. There was much Hawaiian foods supplied, like laulau [puaa hoolua] and roasted pork [puaa kalua kele]; fish wrapped in ti leaves and baked [lawalu] and raw [ai-maka]; baked beef [i'o pipi hoolua] and all types of poi spoken of.
The Governor of the “bays of Piilani”¹ as well as his government officials and Delegates, along with those of the island of Keawe.² These people sat along with their pastor, M. Makalua. They began eating after the prayer was over. The entourage of the King and Queen arrived and sat in their area, and they had their own pastor, J. Waiamau. Therefore, Maui was victorious over their hunger [?? Nolaila, ua eo no ia Maui ma ka houpo lewalewa].
The eating continued perhaps until 5 o’clock. A big problem was the dearth of waiters for the grand feast that was boasted about. Thanks to the small children of Kahehuna [School], there were those to serve the food for the feast.
HAWAIIAN HULA.
From 7 o’clock in the night, Hawaiian hula of five types commenced, that being olapa, kui, uli-uli, pa-ipu, kaka laau, and hula pahu.
When those of Waikiki kai danced their hula kui, the audience complained, and that hula was put to an end without ending properly.
During that joyful night, some youths were seen attempting to get the dancers to kiss their cheeks, and to [?? hoolele na ala] without any sign of shame.
We were deafened by all the improper talk of some of the things seen in that partying crowd that we will not agree to tell the nation.
¹The governor of Maui was John Owen Dominis.
²The governor of Hawaii was Virginia Kapooloku Poomaikelani
(Ko Hawaii Pae Aina, 11/27/1886, p. 4)
Ko Hawaii Pae Aina, Buke IX, Helu 48, Aoao 4. Novemaba 27, 1886.
The road supervisor [luna alanui] of Hilo has not passed by these days; the road to the north of the twin cliffs [na pali mahoe] is left damaged and filthy. Perhaps he is on vacation these weeks as the public schools are on vacation; haiole [?], you are the best.¹
From Onomea until Aleamai, there are three Hawaiian hula mounds [pa hula] where men and women are being taught for the upcoming 12th. There are two green pa hula that are got on with anklets [kupee] on the legs as the women turn this way and that, while they rotate about [poahi apakau] their torsos; some people sit below while rasping [wa'uwa'u] against the outside of a gourd and then their various voices reverberate forth.
For over a week, there was a storm covering the docks here in Hilo, bewildering the ship captains on the Paliku side.
D. I. Wailana, Jr.
¹The Road Supervisor in Chief for Hawaii Island that year, according to Thrum, was C. N. Arnold.
(Kuokoa, 4/30/1887, p. 2)
Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke XXVI, Helu 18, Aoao 2. Aperila 30, 1887.
Another example of the “P. C. Advertiser’s” moral attitude appears int the announcement, that a hula given by the Hon. J. A. Cummins at his resident at Waimanalo was a glorious affair.—We have no doubt, that the display was exceptionally fine, since the ex-Premier has a well earned reputation as a connoiseur in that line, and is said to use the collection of females, formerly of boat house fame, second to none in the country.—Still there is something about the hula, that has so far excluded it from the programs of church festivals and school exercises.—It has never been recommended to lure the mind to thoughts of higher and better things or to produce rigid uprightness of morals.
The hula is a graceful and rhythmic representation of certain actions of the human animal. There is no doubt, that from the earliest ages the physiology of reproduction has been the most intrinsically interesting known to man. After the question of food and personal safety, it is the most important consideration in the lives of man, savage and civilized. The Hindoos and Budhists covered their temples and public buildings with indecent pictures, which in some instances took the form of a cross. This was imported to Rome together with the worship of Isis. So every spire on a Christian Church represents a resurrection of the flesh. But civilized society has decided for good reason to cover Isis with a vail and put Osiris in a straight-jacket. It is only those, who believe in the infallibility and prerogatives derived from gold—as some of our friends—who may wish to go back to the first principles and have the hula taught as an accomplishment in our public schools, so that it might prove more attractive in catching a husband and certainly in domesticating him when caught, than the art of piano playing or embroidery. There are great posibilities in the hula! But at present it is prohibited by the law, and we are sorry to see the law violated by those who ought to know better.
(Leo o ka Lahui, 5/14/1891, p. 4)
Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Buke II, Helu 193, Aoao 4. Mei 14, 1891.
Luke Kanakaole was joined together in the sacred bond of marriage with Miss Edith Kanaele, of Keaukaha. Marriage is a splendid thing.
[After attending the awesome symposium this past week, Words in the World: Literatures, Oratures, and New Meeting Grounds, it was serendipity that I just came across this marriage announcement for the famous chanter and hula practitioner, as well as mother of one of the esteemed mele panel presenters, Pualani Kanakaole Kanahele!
There is so much available in the Hawaiian-Language Newspapers, if only we bothered to look. Although it wouldn't hurt if there were clear images online and they were accurately word searchable.]
(Hoku o Hawaii, 2/14/1933, p. 3)
Ka Hoku o Hawaii, Buke XXVI, Helu 37, Aoao 3. Feberuari 14, 1933.
While Mr. Koha was digging the foundation of his house at Kulaokaiwiula [Kekulaokaiwiula], he excavated some rocks, and as he noticed a flat rock he put exerted himself in pulling it up; as he shoved down his crowbar, it slipped in and wind came blowing up from the earth. Discovering this new thing, he fetched some people to come and see it. They pried up the rock. After they saw this, Mr. Koha supposed that it possibly was a hidden cave [luahuna], although the bottom couldn’t be clearly seen because it was dark. After this great discovery, Mr. Koha put out an announcement, so that it would be clear whether it was a hidden cave or not. There was someone who was associated with this hidden cave on Hawaii, the grandchild of the caretaker of the luahuna previously. When he saw Koha’s ad about this thing, he came at once to check if what was advertised was true. He arrived on Oahu and stayed with Koha at Kulaokaiwiula, and that was when that man from Hawaii told him about what was in that cave. Being that there was no water at this place, Kulaokaiwiula, when Koha was living there, you had to go far to fetch water; however, according to what the man from Hawaii said, there was a spring in the cave, and so that problem was solved, although you had to go down with a light [kuikui] to get the water.
Once, Koha and the man from Hawaii tried to go down in the cave. When the went, the man pointed out the different paths of the cave. This is what he described: On path went and exited at Kalalau, Kauai; and another path went and exited at Kahana, Koolauloa. The path heading to Kahana was not to be travelled by man, for it was guarded by a moo. Another time, they started taking the path which headed towards Kauai. When Koha saw this path, he was astounded to see human bones laid out, being “these were bones of ancient chiefs,” according to the kamaaina. Also here were implements, like a konane board, kilu, hula sticks [laau kaka hula], and other valuable items. The alii of old were fond of entertainment. As they continued on, he noticed there was something dripping down, so he urged his companion to turn back, and so they returned and did not go all the way.
There are more things dealing with the hidden cave, but this is what I know. S. K.
{O Friend, we are appreciative for this very valuable description. Who else? When did this digging by Mr. Koha happen? Editor}
[The Mr. Koha being spoken of here is very likely G. M. Koha, who is a frequent writer into the newspapers. Hopefully the announcement mentioned in this article can be found sometime soon!]
(Kuokoa, 3/26/1897, p. 2)
Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke XXXVI, Helu 13, Aoao 2. Maraki 26, 1897.
Photograph by Oue Studio, Kealakekua
This group of skilled sisters will appear with their musicians and sing and hula at a concert with the Hawaii County Band [Bana Kalana o Hawaii] on Friday, December 20th, and at the Naniloa Hotel, Hilo, on Saturday, December 21, while being broadcast on KHBC.
Beginning from the left are the sisters: Hattie, Carrie Leialoha, Charlotte, Annie Lana and Bella Luana. Carrie Leialoha and Annie Lana are twins and are playing special.
[Anyone have any information on this musical family? Charlotte Bohling wrote a regular column for the Hoku o Hawaii reporting the news from Kona.]
(Hoku o Hawaii, 12/11/1940, p. 1)
Ka Hoku o Hawaii, Volume XXXV, Number 33, Page 1. Dekemaba 11, 1940
OPENING
A GRAND CONCERT!
Of all types of Hawaiian Music, on the night of the
SATURDAY NIGHT, THE 26TH OF THIS MONTH!
AT THE
Chinese Theater!
SEASIDE OF AINAHOU.
There will be some Mele performed with Native Hawaiian instruments, and some with Haole instrments.
By the Famed One
IS THE ORCHESTRATING.
THE PERFORMANCE.
1. IPU PERFORMANCE [LEALEA PAIPU]—4 girls whose steps are like flashes of lightning.
2. CHEST SLAPPING PERFORMANCE [LEALEA PA-I-UMAUMA]—3 boys with swift hand motions.
3. MODERN PERFORMANCE [LEALEA HOU LOA]—4 dolls. The dolls will do a Hula Olapa, and their hand motions will be like those of a human.
4. UKEKE PERFORMANCE [LEALEA UKEKE]—Mr. John Ioane will show his total skill with the metal ukeke (Jew’s harp) with Hawaiian songs and Haole songs—He will exert himself with his ukeke playing in all fashions—[It doesn't help that the image is not clear, but cannot make out the next line and a half. Anyone?] and your hearts will be captured.
5. ULIULI PERFORMANCE [LEALEA ULIULI]—2young children. They will show the fluttering and rattling of this thing, the Uliuli.
6. BANJO PERFORMANCE [LEALEA BANJO]—S. Kalama will exhibit his full skill at the Banjo; and its sound is like the ten-stringed lyre of Mahone [this is probably a reference to a story running in the Kuokoa: "KA MOOLELO O BERIANA KA WIWO OLE A ME MAHONE KE KOA" (4/26/1879–11/20/1880)]
FIVE MINUTE BREAK.
7. ACCORDIAN PERFORMANCE [LEALEA KOLIANA]—Henere [Henry] will show his skill at playing the Accordian, and the sounds he makes: Chinese, hoaeae, oli and the musical scale [pakoli]; it will make the crowd laugh and your sides will hurt.
8. OHELO PERFORMANCE [LEALEA OHELO]—2 women. They will show their abilities at this amusement. This is the amusement of the alii of the olden days that they greatly enjoyed.
9. KUI PERFORMANCE [LEALEA KUI]—2 women. These two ladies will display their readiness at this amusement while from their mouths come mele.
10. UKEKE PERFORMANCE [LEALEA UKEKE]—Mr. John Ioane will show his playing of the ukeke with Mele of the King; and this sweet voice of the ukeke will be accompanied by the steps of some girls doing lele this way and that.
11. MODERN PERFORMANCE [LEALEA ANO HOU]—The Famous Mr. Ioane will show once again some new things that will have the audience in stitches.
The doors will open at 7 P. M. Performances begin at 8.
ENTRANCE FEE: $1.00, $ .50. Tickets [Balota ?] available from hand of those in charge as well as at the entrance.
(Ko Hawaii Pae Aina, 6/26/1880, p. 2)
Ko Hawaii Pae Aina, Buke III, Helu 26, Aoao 2. Iune 26, 1880.
