Tom Hiona, hula master, who is in charge of Hawaiian dances at the Hawaiian Festival to take place Thursday evening at 8 o’clock at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. Continue reading
One of Hawaii’s best known teachers of the hula and directors of hula dancing, Tom Hiona, will open a new studio March 1. the studio is located at 1914 Kahai St., Kalihi.
For the past 15 years, Tom Hiona has been a leader in teaching both ancient and modern hula dances. He will instruct classes in all types of hula, including the following—pahu or drum dances, the olapa, uliuli or rattle gourd, puili or bamboo, iliili or pebble, ka kalaau or tapping sticks as well as modern dances. Continue reading
Hawaiian music, old and new, together with exhibitions of hula dancing will make up a varied program to be given at the Latter-Day Saints hall, Kalihi, Saturday evening by David Bray’s group of Hawaiian entertainers. Continue reading
On the Saturday night, the 26th of this month, the Kaonohiokala Club [Kalapu Kaonohiokala] will put on a beautiful pageant at Laie for the benefit of the Hoolaulea Hall of the Mormons of Honolulu nei. Continue reading
Mrs. Henrietta E. Sullivan of Honolulu nei and Representative George H. Huddy of Hilo became one in the bond of marriage in the Throne Room at midday this past Thursday. Continue reading
London, May 22—Before the onset of this frightening war in Europe, in England there was great opposition to the wish of women to have the right to vote; but today, there is consideration to give British women in England voting rights, and there is a bill before the British Parliament to give suffrage to women. Continue reading
Hakuia e Mrs. Pikini Young Hee.
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Onaona aala ia’u ka nua lehua o Puna,
Maholehole ia pua i ka pehia ia e ka noe,
Ike i ka ili e mahelo o ka panini i ka wai,
Ua hele a Upoluhiwa i ka puia i ke onaona.
Cho. Aia ilaila ka haili hiehie a ka manao,
Repeat. E manao aku ana hoi a he ole ka maliu mai. Continue reading
Keaulana: ‘It was beautiful.’
By BUNKY BAKUTIS
Advertiser Staff Writer
After the dust had settled from the day’s ceremony and the crew relaxed around beer coolers and luau food, Buffalo Keaulana, one of the two steersmen for the sailing canoe’s maiden voyage, summed up the brief cruise: “It was beautiful.
“It (the canoe) turned real easy. And when the paddling was right and the canoe was moving, it was a breeze to handle,” said Keaulana, who has been practicing sailing a smaller version of the double-hulled canoe this past year in preparation for the Tahiti trip.
SOME OF THE PADDLERS for yesterday’s ceremonial cruise into Kaneohe Bay also sung the craft’s praises. Continue reading
By BRUCE BENSON
Advertiser Science Writer
At least a thousand people sat silent on the beach yesterday, watching a Polynesian canoe-blessing ritual not seen since the days of Kamehameha.
Then with hoots and hollers from the crowd, a hundred hands tugged on the lines to send a spanking-new double-hulled canoe down the ways and into Kaneohe Bay. After some two years of dreaming, the Polynesian Voyaging Society was afloat.
The society is a nonprofit group made up of everyone from just average folks to highly skilled artisans and scientists and they are all pursuing the same goal:
To attempt to send the 6–foot canoe launched yesterday to Tahiti and back next summer, using the methods and tools of the Polynesians who first sailed to Hawaii more than a thousand years ago. Continue reading
Photo by Robert B. Goodman for Polynesian Voyaging Society
The place is Kaneohe Bay; the date, 1975. But not since the days of Kamehameha has such a Polynesian canoe-blessing ritual been seen in Hawaii. The occasion was yesterday’s launching of a double-hulled craft which the Polynesian Voyaging Society will attempt to sail to Tahiti and back next summer. For more pictures and the story, see Hawaii Report on Page A-3.
(Star-Bulletin & Advertiser, 5/9/1975, p. 1)
Sunday Star-Bulletin and Advertiser, Page A1, March 9, 1975.
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