
Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula
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Chapters (445)
- UNWRITTEN LITERATURE OF HAWAII THE SACRED SONGS OF THE HULA
- PREFATORY NOTE
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- MUSICAL PIECES
- INTRODUCTION
- I.—THE HULA
- II.—THE HALAU; THE KUAHU—THEIR DECORATION AND CONSECRATION
- THE HALAU
- THE KUAHU
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- III.—THE GODS OF THE HULA.
- IV.—SUPPORT AND ORGANIZATION OF THE HULA
- RULES OF CONDUCT AND TABUS
- V—CEREMONIES OF GRADUATION; DÉBUT OF A HULA DANCER
- CEREMONIES OF GRADUATION
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- DÉBUT OF A HULA DANCER
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- VI.—THE PASSWORD—THE SONG OF ADMISSION
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- VII.—WORSHIP AT THE ALTAR OF THE HALAU
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- VIII.—COSTUME OF THE HULA DANCER
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- IX.—THE HULA ALA’A-PAPA
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- X.—THE HULA PA-ÍPU, OR KUÓLO
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- XI.—THE HULA KI’I
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- XII.—THE HULA PAHU
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- XIII.—THE HULA ÚLI-ULÍ
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- XIV.—THE HULA PUÍLI
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- XV.—THE HULA KA-LAAU
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- XVI.—THE HULA ÍLI-ÍLI
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- XVII.—THE HULA KÁ-ÉKE-ÉKE
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- XVIII.—AN INTERMISSION
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- XIX.—THE HULA MAU-KANI
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- XX.—THE HULA OHE
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- XXI.—THE MUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OF THE HAWAIIANS
- MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
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- EXPLANATORY REMARKS
- ELOCUTION AND RHYTHMIC ACCENT IN HAWAIIAN SONG
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- EXPLANATORY NOTE
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- XXII.—GESTURE
- XXIII.—THE HULA PA-HUA
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- XXIV—THE HULA PELE
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- XXV.—THE HULA PA’I-UMAUMA
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- XXVI.—THE HULA KU’I MOLOKAI
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- XXVII.—THE HULA KIELÉI
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- XXVIII.—THE HULA MÚ’U-MÚ’U
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- XXIX.—THE HULA KOLANI
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- XXX.—THE HULA KOLEA
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- XXXI.—THE HULA MANÓ
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- XXXII.—THE HULA ILÍO
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- XXXIII.—THE HULA PUA’A
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- XXXIV.—THE HULA OHELO
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- XXXV.—THE HULA KILU
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- XXXVI.—THE HULA HOO-NA-NÁ
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- XXXVII.—THE HULA ULILI
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- XXXVIII.—THE HULA O-NIU
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- XXXIX.—THE HULA KU’I
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- XL.—THE OLI
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- XLI.—THE WATER OF KANE
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- XLII.—GENERAL REVIEW
- GLOSSARY
- INDEX
- [NOTE.—All Hawaiian words, as such (except catch words), are italicized.]
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