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Quest 1: Reference Books

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Hawaiian Mythology by Martha W. Beckwith
Call Number: GR385 .B43 1970 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection)
Available as an eBook via Ulukau.
Handbook of Polynesian Mythology by Robert D. Craig
Call Number: BL2620.P6 C72 2004 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection, 1st floor)
Available online via Ebook Central.
Print copy also available in General Reference Collection, 1st floor.
Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology by Robert D. Craig
Call Number: BL2620.P6 C7 1989 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection-1st floor)
Available online via Ebook Central.
Hawaiian Dictionary (1971 ed.) by Mary Kawena Pukui; Samuel H. Elbert
Call Number: PL6446 .P78 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection, 1st floor)
Only the 1971 Edition includes the "Glossary of Hawaiian gods, demigods, family gods, and a few heroes."
Temporarily available as an eBook via HathiTrust Digital Library.
Native Planters in Old Hawaii: Their Life, Lore, and Environment by E.S. Craighill Handy, Elizabeth Green Handy, & Mary Kawena Pukui
Call Number: GN424 .H3
(Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection, 1st floor)
Temporarily available as an eBook via HathiTrust Digital Library.
Sites of Oahu by Sterling, Elspeth P.; Catherine C. Summers (Compiled by)
Call Number: DU628.O3 S8 1993 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection, 1st floor)
Refer to the Detailed Index online to see what might be included about your area.
Hawaiian Legends in English: An Annotated Bibliography by Amos P. Leib; A. Grove Day
Call Number: Z5984.H38 L48 1979 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Reference, Ask at Circulation Desk)
Includes brief biographies of translators of Hawaiian legends.
Temporarily available as an eBook via HathiTrust Digital Library.

Quest 2: Find Another Book

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Akua Hawaiʻi: Hawaiian Gods and Their Stories by Armitage, Kimo; Solomon Enos (Illustrator)
Call Number: BL2620.H3 A76 2005 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection, 1st floor)
Folktales of Hawaiʻi = He Mau Kaʻao Hawaiʻi by Pukui, Mary Kawena (Compiled by)
Call Number: GR110.H38 P85 1995 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection, 1st floor)
Hawaiian and English
Temporarily available as an eBook via HathiTrust Digital Library.
Fornander collection of Hawaiian antiquities and folk-lore by Fornander, Abraham; with translations revised and illustrated with notes by Thomas G. Thrum.
Call Number: GN670 .B5 vols. 4-6 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection, 1st floor)
Text in Hawaiian and English
ONLINE VERSION Vol.4
ONLINE VERSION Vol.5
ONLINE VERSION Vol.6
Myths and Legends of Hawaiʻi by Westervelt, William D.
Call Number: GR110.H38 W45 2005 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection-1st floor)
Nā Moʻolelo Hawai'i O Ka Wā Kahiko by Alameida, Roy K.
Call Number: PZ8.1.A42 Mo 1997 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection-1st floor)
Oceanic Mythology: The Myths of Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, Australia by Roslyn Poignant
Call Number: BL2600 .P6 1967 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection, 1st floor)
Temporarily available as an eBook via HathiTrust Digital Library.
The Polynesian Family System in Kaʻu, Hawaiʻi by E. S. Craighill Handy; Mary Kawena Pukui
Call Number: DU624.65 .H36 1998 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection-1st floor)
Also available online from Ulukau.
Pele, Volcano Goddess of Hawaiʻi: A History by H. Arlo Nimmo
Call Number: BL2620.H3 N56 2011 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection-1st floor)
Resource Units in Hawaiian Culture by Donald D. Kilolani Mitchell
Call Number: DU625.8 .M58 1992 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection, 1st floor)
Available as an eBook via Ulukau.
Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii by Samuel M. Kamakau
Call Number: DU624.65 .K3413 1992 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection, 1st floor)
Also available online as an eBook with Ulukau.
Treasury of Hawaiian Words in One Hundred and One Categories by Harold W. Kent
Call Number: PL6446 K46 1993 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection-1st floor)
Lists of Hawaiian words, including birds, insects, places, plants, fish, rains, shellfish, etc.
The Epic Tale of Hiʻiakaikapoliopele: Woman of the Sunrise, Lightning-Skirted Beauty of Halemaʻumaʻu by Hoʻoulumāhiehie; Solomon Enos
Call Number: GR385.H3 H66 2006b (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection, 1st floor)
Pele, the Fire Goddess by Dietrich Varez; Pua Kanakaʻole Kanahele
Call Number: BL2620.H3 V37 1991 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection, 1st floor)
Pele and Hiiaka: A Myth from Hawaii by Nathaniel B. Emerson
Call Number: GR385.H3 E55 1978 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Reference, Ask at Circulation Desk)
Also available online as an eBook via Internet Archive.
Voices of Fire: Reweaving the Literary Lei of Pele and Hiʻiaka by kuʻualoha hoʻomanawanui
Call Number: PL6448 .H66 2014 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection, 1st floor)
Also available online via Ebook Central.
Hawaiian Legends in English: An Annotated Bibliography by Amos P. Leib; A. Grove Day
Call Number: Z5984.H38 L48 1979 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Reference, Ask at Circulation Desk)
Includes brief biographies of translators of Hawaiian legends.
Temporarily available as an eBook via HathiTrust Digital Library.

Quest 3: Hawaiian Legends Index

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Quest 4: Ulukau eBooks

Ulukau.org includes full-text digitized books on Hawaiian culture, history and language. Remember to try your search with and without the diacritics. Need help? Click here.

Quest 5: Find a Good Website

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Asia-Pacific Digital Library: Traditions of Oʻahu
"Stories of this island before high-rises, freeways and hotels, before sugar plantations and pineapple fields, before churches and the Bible."
E Hoʻoulu Lāhui, Hawaiian Studies & Language Program at the University of Hawaiʻi Maui College
Internet Sacred Text Archive - Hawai'i & Pacific
Full-text online books about religion, mythology, and folklore
Scholar Space
"ScholarSpace is an open-access, digital institutional repository for the University of Hawaii at Mānoa community."

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Newspaper & Journal Articles

Papakilo Database
Search Hawaiian-language newspapers (1834-1948), Mahele land records, and more.
Chronicling America: Historic Newspapers
Digitized English-language newspapers published in Hawaiʻi from 1836-1922.
The Hawaiian Journal of History
An annual scholarly journal devoted to original articles on the history of Hawai‘i, Polynesia, and the Pacific area. Available online in full-text from UH Mānoa eVols (1967-2017) and from EBSCOhost (2003-2019).
Current & past issues are also available in Print at Lama Library.
The Journal of the Polynesian Society
A journal focusing on the "past and present New Zealand Māori and other Pacific Island peoples and cultures." Full-text articles online 1892-Present. Print copies also available (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Reference-Request at Circulation Desk).

Hawaiʻi Pacific Journal Index
An index to magazines and journals published in or about Hawaiʻi & the Pacific; citations only. See the Reference Desk for help locating the print issue. Indexes the following journals and magazines: http://hpji.lib.hawaii.edu/HPJITitles.htm