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Nā mele welo = Songs of our heritage : selections from the Roberts Mele Collection in Bishop Museum, Honolulu / translated from the Hawaiian by Mary Kawena Pukui ; arranged and edited by Pat Namaka Bacon and Nathan Napoka.

Title
Nā mele welo = Songs of our heritage : selections from the Roberts Mele Collection in Bishop Museum, Honolulu / translated from the Hawaiian by Mary Kawena Pukui ; arranged and edited by Pat Namaka Bacon and Nathan Napoka.
Publication
Honolulu : Bishop Museum Press, c1995.

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Additional Authors
  • Bacon, Pat Namaka, 1920-
  • Pukui, Mary Kawena, 1895-1986
  • Napoka, Nathan
  • Roberts, Helen H. (Helen Heffron), 1888-1985
  • Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum. Roberts Mele Collection.
Description
xviii, 237 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
82 chants in Hawaiian from Helen Roberts' fieldwork published in her Ancient Hawaiian Music (Bishop Museum bulletin 29), 1929. Includes translations, notes, and brief biographical notes on contributors.
Series Statement
Bishop Museum special publication ; 88
Uniform Title
Bernice P. Bishop Museum special publication 88.
Alternative Title
  • Songs of our heritage
  • Roberts Mele Collection
Subject
  • Roberts, Helen H. 1888-1985 > Ethnomusicological collections
  • Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum
  • Hawaiian chants
  • Hula (Dance)
  • Folk songs, Hawaiian > Texts
  • Hawaiian poetry > Translations into English
  • Hawaiian chants
  • Hawaiian language > Texts
Genre/Form
  • Texts
  • Translations
  • Chants
  • Folk poetry
  • Musical texts
  • Poetry
Language (note)
  • Hawaiian and English translations on facing pages.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Oli = Nondance chants -- Hula = Dance chants.
ISBN
0930897870
LCCN
^^^94074333^
OCLC
  • 32629772
  • SCSB-10248550
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library