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A shark going inland is my chief : the island civilization of ancient Hawaiʻi
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A shark going inland is my chief : the island civilization of ancient Hawaiʻi / Patrick Vinton Kirch.
ISBN
9780520273306 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520273303 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.
Physical Description
xvii, 346 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 09, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-333) and index.
Contents
Islands out of time
A trail of tattooed pots
East from Hawaiki
Follow the golden plover
Voyages into the past
The sands of Waimānalo
Flightless ducks and palm forests
Voyaging chiefs from Kahiki
Māʻilikūkahi, Oʻahu's sacred king
The waters of Kāne
"Like shoals of fish"
ʻUmi the unifier
ʻUmi's dryland gardens
The house of Piʻilani
"Like a shark that travels on the land"
The altar of Kū
The return of Lono
Prophecy and sacrifice
Hawaiʻi in world history.
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