Ike Ulana Lau Hala: The Vitality and Vibrancy of Lau Hala by Lia O'Neill Keawe,Marsha MacDowell,C. Kurt Dewhurst

By Lia O'Neill Keawe,Marsha MacDowell,C. Kurt Dewhurst

The weaving of lau hala represents a residing culture borne at the nice arc of Pacific voyaging background. This thriving culture is made rapid by means of masters of the artwork who transmit their wisdom to people who are equally dedicated to, and extremely joyful via, the smoothness, softness, and that individual hot body spray of a woven lau hala treasure. The 3rd quantity within the Hawaiʻinuiākea sequence, ʻIke Ulana Lau Hala is an interesting choice of articles and pictures concerning the Hawaiian culture of ulana lau hala: the weaving, by way of hand, of dried Pandanus tectorius leaves.

ʻIke Ulana Lau Hala considers the standard hala glance through numerous, very assorted lenses: an research of lau hala goods that ensue in old images from the Bishop Museum collections; the ecological historical past on hala in Hawaiʻi and the Pacific together with severe demanding situations to its survival and methods to avoid its extinction; perspectives–in Hawaiian–of a local speaker from Niʻihau on grasp weavers and the connection among instructor and learner; a review–also in Hawaiian– of references to lau hala in poetical sayings and idioms; a survey of lau hala in Hawaiian cultural historical past and the documentation undertaking underway to percentage the paintings with a broader viewers; and a talk with a grasp artisan identified for his precise and complicated building of the lei hala. wealthy with imagery, this outstanding quantity will advisor the reader to a greater realizing of the cultural scope and significance of lau hala, fostering an appreciation of the extent of excellence to which the paintings of ulana lau hala has risen below the information of masters who proceed to guide the Hawaiian kind of the culture into the future.

Contributors contain: Lia Keawe, Marsha MacDowell, Kurt Dewhurst, Marques Marzan, Jenna Robinson, Betty Kam, Annette Kuʻuipolani Wong, Kekeha Solis, Timothy Gallaher, and Kaiwipuni Lipe with Uncle Roy Benham. the quantity is co-edited by means of Keawe, MacDowell, and Dewhurst.

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