Links to the Past: The Work of Early Hawaiian Artisans

Acknowledgments

325 There are more than 1,400 drawings in this book. They are based on photographs from books about the Pacific and the Ethnophoto File at the Bishop Museum, photographs taken by me, and images e-mailed to me from afar. Only through the cooperation and goodwill of nearly a hundred curators and specialists was I able to amass the images and information presented here. In a sense this book is a collaborative effort. For a baseline of Hawaiian artifacts present at the time of Captain Cook’s arrival, I relied heavily upon Artificial Curiosities by Adrienne Kaeppler of the Smithsonian Institution. This information was supplemented by personal communications with Dr. Kaeppler and museum curators. I was able to identify additional locations of Hawaiian artifacts using the extensive resources in the Hawai‘i and the Pacific section of the University of Hawai‘i’s Hamilton Library. To facilitate my research there, Karen Peacock kindly allowed me free access to the closed stacks. I was able to collect much information on O‘ahu. At the Bishop Museum, the Ethnophoto File, established over a half century ago, enabled me to learn of collections of Hawaiian objects worldwide. I also viewed and photographed some of the museum’s collections with the cooperation of Betty Kam, Maile Drake, and Marques Marzan. I found additional objects at the Honolulu Academy of Arts with the assistance of Franklyn Donahue and Sanna Deutsch. At the Queen Emma Summer Palace, one of the two museums established by the Daughters of Hawai‘i, Mildred Nolan, Dale Bachman, and Leilani Maguire were very helpful. Outside Honolulu, at Brigham Young University–Hawai‘i, Mathew Kester shared the university’s collection with me. From Kaua‘i I received the assistance of Chris Faye of the Kaua‘i Museum and Moises Madaog of the Grove Farm-Homestead Museum. One collection came to me in a sense when objects collected by Cook and housed at the Institut für Ethnologie und Ethnologische Sammlung, Universität Göttingen were exhibited at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. With the permission of Stephen Little, Gundolf Krüger allowed me to inspect and photograph the pieces. Gerry Barton of the Hannover Museum and Ulrich Menter provided additional insights. Early European voyagers took Hawaiian objects back home with them. They were then passed on to family members, museums, and collectors. Tracking them down put me into contact with people as far away as Russia. At the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Pavel Belkov very helpfully supplied new and old photos and much valuable historical information and Maria Yanes coordinated permissions. The largest collections are in England, necessitating my visiting two of them. Jill Hasell at the British Museum graciously set aside a full week for me to view and photograph the museum’s collection. Jenny Newell supplemented this over the years with collection details. I also visited the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford University. With the kind permission of Jeremy Coote, I was able to photograph much of that collection with the help of Zena McGreevy. The balance of the information and material came to me via e-mail. Museum curators sent me lists of their holdings and the dimensions and provenance of selected pieces as well as photographs. Because many of the objects had never been photographed, the curators took the photographs themselves or requested a staff photographer to do so. I am indebted to them for their work: They truly made this book possible. I located a great many early Hawaiian objects in the United Kingdom. In England, over the years Tabitha Cadbury, Fanny Wonu Veys, and Rachel Hand e-mailed images and information from the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology as did Leslie Jessop and Tim Pettigrew of the Hancock Museum, Giles Guthrie and Clare Caless of the Maidstone Museum, Sarah Wilson and Lynn Morrison of the Saffron Walden Museum, and Hassan Arero and Kate Linden of the Horniman Museum. Jane Burkinshaw of the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Joan Lyall at the Ipswich Museum, Tamara Chase at the Cuming Museum, Victoria Williams of the Hastings Museum, and Lynne Heidi Stumpe at the World Museum Liverpool also obliged me with material on their collections. From Scotland I received contributions from Chantal Knowles, Lesley-Ann Liddiard, and Brenda McGoff of the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh; from Sally-Anne Coupar of the Huntarian Museum, Glasgow; and Susan Keracher of the McManus Museum, Dundee. Mary Cahill of the Acknowledgments Acknowledgments National Museum of...