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Hawaiʻi Place Names

Place Names of Hawaii by Mary Kawena Pukui; Samuel H. Elbert; Esther T. Mookini
Call Number: DU622 .P79 1976 (Hawaii & Pacific Collection)

Reference copies also available (Request from Circulation Desk)
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Sites of Oʻahu by Elspeth P. Sterling (Compiled by); Catherine C. Summers (Compiled by)
Call Number: DU628.O3 S8 1993 (Hawaii & Pacific Collection)

Detailed index
Ancient Sites of Oʻahu by Van James
Call Number: DU624 J36 1991 (Hawaiian Reference-Request at Circulation desk)
Hawai'i Place Names by John R. K. Clark
Call Number: DU622 .C546 2002 (Hawaii & Pacific Collection)

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Native Planters of Old Hawaii by E. S. Handy; E. G. Handy; Mary Kawena Pukui
Call Number: GN424 .H3 (Hawaii & Pacific Collection)

See pt. 5: Descriptions of areas of habitation on each island.
Olelo No'eau: Hawaiian proverbs & poetical sayings by Mary Kawena Pukui
Call Number: PN6519.H4 P84 1983 (Hawaii & Pacific Collection)

See p. 344 for Index to Place Names
Hawaiian Surfing by John R. K. Clark
Call Number: GV839.65.H3 C53 2011 (Hawaii & Pacific Collection)

Includes historical information on surf spots.
ONLINE VERSION

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ʻAhupuaʻa and ʻIli names. historic maps

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Hawaiian Legends Index

Search here to help you locate myths and legends indexed in 77 books.

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The Hawaiian Journal of History
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Hawaiʻi Pacific Journal Index
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Nā Makani & Nā Ua: Winds & Rains

Winds & Rains of Hawaiʻi
compiled by Annie Thomas
The Wind Gourd of Laʻamaomao by Esther T. Mookini (Translator); Sarah Nakoa (Translator)
Call Number: PL6448.9 N34413 1990 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection)

See pp. 132-135 for "Winds and Rains of Hawai'i" list (compiled from the Pukui-Elbert Hawaiian Dictionary).
Treasury of Hawaiian Words in One Hundred and One Categories by Harold W. Kent
Call Number: PL6446 K46 1993 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection)

See list of rains on p. 377 & winds on p. 437
Na Makani o ka Mokupuni by Compiled by Roy Kākulu Alameida
Winds by Island (PDF)
Winds of Oahu
Ahupuaʻa maps & wind names. Asia-Pacific Digital Library.
Ka Ua: mai ka puke wehewehe ʻōlelo ʻo Hawaiian Dictionary by e Samuel Elbert a me Mary Kawena Pukui
Rains from the Hawaiian Dictionary by Elbert & Pukui (1971); PDF
Index of Winds by Genie Alvarado
Index of Winds by Island by Genie Alvarado
Index of Rains by Genie Alvarado
Index of Rains by Island by Genie Alvarado
Hānau Ka Ua: Hawaiian Rain Names by Collette Leimomi Akana with Kiele Gonzalez
Call Number: PL6449 .A43 2015 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection)

Hawaiian Moʻolelo (Stories/Legends)

Hawaiian Mythology by Martha W. Beckwith
Call Number: GR385 .B43 1970 (Hawaii & Pacific Collection)

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Sites of Oahu by Sterling, Elspeth P.; Catherine C. Summers
Call Number: DU628.O3 S8 1993 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection)
Native Planters in Old Hawaii by Handy, E. S.; E. G. Handy; Mary Kawena Pukui
Call Number: GN424 .H3 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection)
Hawaiian Dictionary by Pukui, Mary Kawena; Samuel H. Elbert
Call Number: PL6446 .P78 (Hawaii & Pacific Collection)
Publication Date: 1971 edition

Only the 1971 edition includes the "Glossary of Hawaiian gods, demigods, family gods, and a few heroes"
Sites of Maui by Elspeth P. Sterling
Call Number: DU628.M3 S72 1998 (Hawaiian Reference - Request at Circulation Desk)
Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology by Robert D. Craig
Call Number: BL2620.P6 C7 1989 (Hawaiian Reference - Request at Circulation Desk)

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Handbook of Polynesian Mythology by Robert D. Craig
Call Number: BL2620.P6 C72 2004 (Reference Collection)

FULL-TEXT ONLINE

More stories, legends, moʻolelo

Ancient Oahʻu: Stories from Fornander & Thrum by Dennis Kawaharada (Editor)
Call Number: GR110.H3 A53 2001 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection)

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Māui, the mischief maker by Dietrich Varez; Pua K. Kanahele
Call Number: GR110.H38 V37 1991 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection)
The Legends and Myths of Hawaii by David Kalakaua
Call Number: GR385.H3 K3 1972 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection)
Kamapuaʻa: The Hawaiian Pig-God by Lilikala Kame'eleihiwa
Call Number: GR110.H38 M68 1996 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection)
Legends of Maui: a demi-god of Polynesia and his mother Hina by W. D. Westervelt
Call Number: GR510 .W46 1913b (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection)
Pele Mā: legends of Pele from Kauaʻi by Frederick B. Wichman
Call Number: PS571.H3 B35 no.80 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection)
Akua Hawaiʻi by Armitage, Kimo; Solomon Enos (Illustrator)
Call Number: BL2620.H3 A76 2005 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection)
Folktales of Hawaii by Pukui, Mary Kawena (Compiled by)
Call Number: GR110.H38 P85 1995 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection)
Fornander collection of Hawaiian antiquities and folk-lore by Fornander, Abraham; with translations revised and illustrated with notes by Thomas G. Thrum.
Call Number: AM101 .B4473 vols. 4-6 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Reference-Request at Circulation Desk)

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)
Nā Moʻolelo Hawai'i O Ka Wā Kahiko by Alameida, Roy K.
Call Number: PZ8.1.A42 Mo 1997 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection)
Oceanic Mythology by Roslyn Poignant
Call Number: BL2600 .P6 1967 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection)
Voices on the wind; Polynesian myths and chants
Call Number: BL2620 .P6 L82 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection)
Hawaiian Legends by William H. Rice
Call Number: GR385.H3 R5 1977 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Reference-Request at Circulation Desk)

Also available as a PDF online.
Pele by Varez, Dietrich; Pua K. Kanahele
Call Number: BL2620.H3 V37 1991 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection)
Pele and Hiiaka by Emerson, Nathaniel B.
Call Number: GR385.H3 E55 1978 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Reference-Request at Circulation Desk)

ONLINE VERSION
Pele, Volcano Goddess of Hawai'i by H. Arlo Nimmo
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Naupaka by Winona Desha Beamer
Call Number: PZ90.H27 B4 2008 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection)
Hawaiian Legends of Dreams by Caren Loebel-Fried (Retold by)
Call Number: PZ8.1.L934 Har 2005 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection)
The Epic Tale of Hiʻiakaikapoliopele by Hooulumahiehie; Puakea Nogelmeier
Call Number: GR385.H3 H66 2006b (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection)
Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii by Kamakau, Samuel M.; Lilikala Kame'Eleihiwa (Introduction by); Mary Kawena Pukui (Translator)
Call Number: DU624.65 .K3413 1992 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection)

ONLINE VERSION
Hawaiian Legends in English: an annotated bibliography by Amos P. Leib; A. Grove Day
Call Number: Z5984.H38 L48 1979 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Reference-Request at Circulation Desk)

Includes brief biographies of translators of Hawaiian legends

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