Shark Going Inland Is My Chief: the Island Civilization of Ancient Hawai'i 9780520273306
294 56 6MB
English Year 2012
Table of contents :
List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Prologue: Islands out of Time Part One: Voyages One: A Trail of Tattooed Pots Two: East from Hawaiki Three: Follow the Golden Plover Four: Voyages into the Past Five: The Sands of Waimanalo Part Two: In Pele's Islands Six: Flightless Ducks and Palm Forests Seven: Voyaging Chiefs from Kahiki Eight: Ma'ilikukahi, O'ahu's Sacred King Nine: The Waters of Kane Ten: "Like Shoals of Fish" Part Three: The Reign of the Feathered Gods Eleven: 'Umi the Unifier Twelve: 'Umi's Dryland Gardens Thirteen: The House of Pi'ilani Fourteen: "Like a Shark That Travels on the Land" Fifteen: The Altar of Ku Sixteen: The Return of Lono Seventeen: Prophecy and Sacrifice Epilogue: Hawai'i in World History Alphabetical List of Hawaiian Historical Persons Glossary of Hawaiian Words Sources and Further Reading Index
