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Books at Kapiʻolani CC

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."
Hawaiian Mythology by Martha W. Beckwith
Call Number: GR385 .B43 1970 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection, 1st floor)

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.
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)

See pt. 5: Descriptions of areas of habitation on each island.
Akua Hawaiʻi: Hawaiian Gods and Their Stories by Armitage, Kimo; Solomon Enos (Illustrator)
Call Number: BL2620.H3 A76 2005 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection - 1st floor)
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 via Ulukau to see what might be included about your area.
Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-Lore by Abraham Fornander; Thomas G. Thrum
Call Number: GN670 .B5 vols. 4-6 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection - 1st floor)

Text in Hawaiian and English.
Also available online via Archive.org: Vol. 4.
online via Archive.org: Vol. 5.
online via Archive.org: Vol. 6.
Nā Moʻolelo Hawaiʻi o ka Wā Kahiko = Stories of Old Hawaiʻi: A Literary Companion to The Hawaiians of Old by Roy Kākulu Alameida
Call Number: PZ8.1.A42 Mo 1997 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection-1st floor)
Myths and Legends of Hawaiʻi by William D. Westervelt
Call Number: GR110.H38 W45 2005 (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)
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 eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) (1972 version).
And available online via Ebook Central (1972 version).
And available online via Ulukau.
Resource Units in Hawaiian Culture by Donald D. Kilolani Mitchell
Call Number: DU625.8 .M58 1992 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection, 1st floor)

Also available online via Ulukau.
Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii by Samuel M. Kamakau
Call Number: DU624.65 .K3413 1992 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection, 1st floor)

Also available online via 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.
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.
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
Pele, Volcano Goddess of Hawaiʻi: A History by H. Arlo Nimmo
Call Number: BL2620.H3 N56 2011 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection, 1st floor)

Also available online via Ebook Central.
Hawaii's Night Marchers: A History of the Huakaʻi Pō by Robert Lopaka Kapanui; Tanya Kapanui
Call Number: GR385.H3 K37 2023 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection, 1st floor)

Hawaiian Legends Index

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

Newspaper & Journal Articles

Hoʻolaupaʻi: He ʻOhina Nūpepa ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi
An online collection of historic Hawaiian-language newspapers published between 1834 and 1948.
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 (1967-2020) and via EBSCOhost's Academic Search Complete (2003-2024).
Current & past issues are also available in Print at Lama Library.

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 print issues. See Titles and Coverage for a list of the journals and magazines included.

The Journal of the Polynesian Society
Call Number: GN2 .P7 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Reference, Ask at Circulation Desk)

Also available online via The Polynesian Society.

eBooks & Websites

Ulukau-The Hawaiian Electronic Library
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."