Tag Archives: Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum

Emma Metcalf Nakuina affronted, 1897.

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Contemptuous Act Against Women.

Being that the parading was being held in the uplands of the Kamehameha School for Boys, on the plains of Kaiwiula, Mrs. Emma Metcalf Nakuina went attended by Mrs. R. W. Maea [Mrs. Rudolph William Meyer] of Kalae, Molokai and two of her daughters, Mrs. Mutch and Mrs. Hitchcock. They went and sat in a calm and shady place at the Bishop Museum, atop a area covered with manienie grass, and the son of the one named first, F. W. Kahapula Beckley, brought them chairs. Continue reading →

New hours of the Bishop Museum, 1911.

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ANNOUNCEMENT.

On the 2nd of October, 1911 and thereafter until a new announcement is made, the Bernice P. Bishop Museum will be opened to the public from 10 a. m. until the 4 p. m. EVERYDAY except Sundays, Wednesdays, and the four holidays of each year, they being Memorial Day [La Lupua], Independence Day [La Kuokoa], Thanksgiving [La Hoalohaloha], and Christmas [La Karisimaka]. Permits to visit the museum will not be issued to the passengers aboard the steamships on Wednesdays as previously was done.

BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES.

Sept. 1, 1911.

[These days, the Museum is open everyday from 9:00 a. m. to 5:00 p. m., except on Tuesdays and ka La Karisimaka.]

(Kuokoa, 9/8/1911, p. 8)

HOOLAHA.

Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke XLVII, Helu 36, Aoao 8. Sepatemaba 8, 1911.

The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, 1911.

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THE MUSEUM

On the 2nd of October, the museum mauka of the Kamehameha School for Boys will be opened, and everyone will be able to tour it without payment during the time allowed.

In the museum there are many things that Hawaiians have not seen, and it is hoped that Hawaiians will see what is collected in this building.

From the time this was built at Kamehameha School until today, there have not been many Hawaiians who have come to tour, but it is important for the kamaaina to see these things before the malihini get a chance to see first of what they only have heard of before visiting Hawaii nei.

In this issue of the Kuokoa is an announcement by the trustees of the Kamehameha School explaining fully the days on which the museum will be opened to the public, along with the days that it is restricted and cannot be visited by all people.

(Kuokoa, 9/8/1911, p. 8)

 

KA HALE HOIKEIKE O NA MEA KAHIKO

Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke XLVII, Helu 36, Aoao 8. Sepatemaba 8, 1911.

More blogs from the Bishop Museum: Anthropology, 2014.

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This blog has been up for a little longer than the nupepa-hawaii.com blog has been up. If you are into anthropology of Hawaii and the Pacific, this is probably a blog you will enjoy. It is a little difficult to maneuver without any tags or many categories, but if you have the time to click back and forth, check them out.

ANTHROPOLOGY

Department of the Bishop Museum

More on the originator of Lei Day, Don Blanding, 1939.

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Don Blanding Dedicates this poem to the oldsters of Hawaii

This was translated into Hawaiian for the writer by Mrs. Mary Kawena Pukui of the Bishop Museum. These mele in English and Hawaiian will come out in the new book by Don Blanding, Drifter’s Gold, which will be published in the last week of September.

Tutu

WRITTEN BY DON BLANDING

E iini no au e kahiko aku e like me kou kahiko ana, e Tutu,
I ike i ka hua o ke aloha, i haawi oluolu aku,
E iini no au e like ko’u oho me kou oho poohina, e Tutu,
O na oho kuakea pakahi, he makana no keia ola ana.

E iini no au e like o’u mau maka me kou mau maka oluolu, e Tutu
I piha i ka waimaka a puka mai hoi ka aka ana,
E iini no au e loaa ia’u ka minoaka ana e like me kou, e Tutu,
O na alu pakahi o kou papalina, he waiwai i kaha ia e keia ola ana.

E iini no au e nana i hope e like me kou nana ana, e Tutu,
E hoomanao ana i na mea maikai, e hoopoina aku i ka nui,
E iini no au e nana aku i ka maka o ka make ana e like me oe, e Tutu,
Me ka naau hoomaikai, wiwoole a kaumaha ole.

(Hoku o Hawaii, 7/12/1939, p. 1)

Hoolaa o Don Blanding keia mele no na Hawaii kahiko

Ka Hoku o Hawaii, Volume XXXIV, Nuimber 11, Aoao 1. Iulai 12, 1939.

Newspapers, translation, and a mele for the Merrie Monarch, 1913 / Timeless.

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You can find various translations for the beautiful song, “Kaipoleimanu” in the archives of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, online, and on liner notes. None however seems to acknowledge that Kaipoleimanu itself was a wahi pana, along with its neighboring hau of Maihi, ulu of Weli [also seen as Wehi], and hala of Mapuana.

There is a priceless church meeting report/travelogue appearing in the Kuokoa from 12/5/1913 to 2/6/1914: Ka Ike Hou ana o ke Kamahele i ka Mokupuni o Kauai [The Traveler Sees Once More the Island of Kauai], signed, Kamahele. Amongst all the fascinating information found in this report is a description of the places hearkened to in the mele Kaipoleimanu, to which the traveller is taken by his guide, the Deputy Sheriff of Hanalei, William Werner. He says: Continue reading →

Construction of the Bishop Museum, 1889.

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SLABS FROM A HEIAU.

The Kinau brought this morning two slabs from a heathen temple or heiau at Kapoho, Puna, Hawaii. They are to be placed in the Bishop Museum now in course of erection at the Kamehameha school grounds. Some of the stones in this same temple had a mark of a cross on them, supposed to have been made by the Spaniards when voyaging to these islands years and years ago.

(Daily Bulletin, 5/29/1889, p. 3)

SLABS FROM A HEIAU.

The Daily Bulletin, Volume XIV, Number 2262, Page 3. May 29, 1889.

Queen’s Hospital trustees and the Bishop Museum, 1886.

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DECISION OF QUEEN’S HOSPITAL TRUSTEES.

 A special meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Queen’s Hospital was held this morning in the Chamber of Commerce room. The object of the meeting was to consider the advisableness and feasibility of transferring the antiquities and curios left to the Hospital by the will of the late Queen Emma to the Hon. Chas. R. Bishop, who is about to open a national museum. Mr. Kunuiakea, one of the heirs of the Queen Emma estate and part claimant of the curios, consents to give his interest in them to Mr. Bishop for the purpose mentioned, on the condition that the Queen’s Hospital also give their interest. It having been the wish of the late Queen Emma to have a national museum in Honolulu, and such wish having been specified in her will (signed but not witnessed), the Trustees of the Queen’s Hospital have decided to deed to Mr. C. R. Bishop all the curios and antiquities left them by the will of the deceased queen, on the condition that all the ancient relics left by the late High Chiefess Pauahi Bishop, be also given to the museum.

(Daily Herald, 9/16/1886, p. 3)

DECISION OF QUEEN'S HOSPITAL TRUSTEES.

The Daily Bulletin, Volume IX, Number 1432, Page 3. September 15, 1886.

Beginnings of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, 1886.

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Museum of Antiquities.

A special meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Queen’s Hospital was held yesterday. It was called to consider the question of conveying the Hawaiian antiquities and curios, devised to the Trustees by the will of the late Queen Emma, to the Hon. C. R. Bishop for a projected public museum. Mr. Bishop had sometime ago formed the purpose of founding a museum of Hawaiian antiquities, with the collection of his late consort, Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop, as the nucleus. Continue reading →