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Title: Unwritten Literature of Hawaii
The Sacred Songs of the Hula
Author: Nathaniel Bright Emerson
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BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY

BULLETIN 38 PLATE I
FEMALE DANCING IN HULA
COSTUME]
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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY

BULLETIN 38

UNWRITTEN LITERATURE
OF HAWAII
THE SACRED SONGS OF THE HULA

COLLECTED AND TRANSLATED, WITH
NOTES AND AN ACCOUNT OF THE HULA
BY NATHANIEL B. EMERSON, A.M.,
M.D.

WASHINGTON
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
1909
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PREFATORY NOTE
Previous to the year 1906 the researches of the Bureau were restricted
to the American Indians, but by act of Congress approved June 30 of
that year the scope of its operations was extended to include the natives
of the Hawaiian islands. Funds were not specifically provided, however,
for prosecuting investigations among these people, and in the absence
of an appropriation for this purpose it was considered inadvisable to
restrict the systematic investigations among the Indian tribes in order
that the new field might be entered. Fortunately the publication of
valuable data pertaining to Hawaii is already provided for, and the
present memoir by Doctor Emerson is the first of the Bureau's
Hawaiian series. It is expected that this Bulletin will be followed
shortly by one comprising an extended list of works relating to Hawaii,
compiled by Prof. H.M. Ballou and Dr. Cyrus Thomas.
W.H. HOLMES,
_Chief._

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CONTENTS
Page
Introduction 7
I. The hula 11
II. The halau; the kuahu--their decoration and consecration 14
III. The gods of the hula 23
IV. Support and organization of the hula 26
V. Ceremonies of graduation; debut of a hula dancer 31
VI. The password--the song of admission 38
VII. Worship at the altar of the halau 42
VIII. Costume of the hula dancer 49
IX. The hula alá'a-papa 57
X. The hula pa-ipu, or kuolo 73
XI. The hula ki'i 91
XII. The hula pahu 103
XIII. The hula úliulí 107
XIV. The hula puili 113
XV. The hula ka-laau 116

XVI. The hula ili-ili 120
XVII. The hula kaekeeke 122
XVIII. An intermission 126
XIX. The hula niau-kani 132
XX. The hula ohe 135
XXI. The music and musical instruments of the Hawaiians 138
XXII. Gesture 176
XXIII. The hula pa-hua 183
XXIV. The hula Pele 186
XXV, The hula pa'i-umauma 202
XXVI. The hula ku'i Molokai 207
XXVII. The hula kielei 210
XXVIII. The hula mú'u-mú'u 212
XXIX. The hula kolani 216
XXX. The hula kolea 219
XXXI. The hula manó 221
XXXII. The hula ilio 223
XXXIII. The hula pua'a 228
XXXIV. The hula ohelo 233
XXXV. Thehula kilu 235

XXXVI. The hula hoonaná 244
XXXVII. The hula ulili 246
XXXVIII. The hula o-niu 248
XXXIX. The hula ku'i 250
XL. The oli 254
XLI. The water of Kane 257
XLII.