HAWAI`ILOA MUSEUM EXHIBITION

Benton Kealii Pang (benton@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu)
Sat, 14 Jan 1995 10:01:06 GMT

ANNOUNCEMENT (KU I KA LONO!!)

HAWAI`ILOA MUSEUM EXHIBITION

E KIPA MAI!-You are invited

HAWAI`ILOA, KA `IMI `IKE-SEEKER OF KNOWLEDGE

Opening Day
Saturday, January 14, 1995
8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
at
The Bishop Museum, the State Museum of Natural and Cultural History,
Honolulu, Hawai`i.

Join us in hanohano (honoring) and for ho`ola`a (dedication) of the
Hawai`iloa canoe and voyaging project, and the many participants whose
skills, dedication and hard work are celebrated in the exhibition.

Join in the re-dedication of Hawaiian Hall, a source of Hawaiian culture,
heritage and knowledge, and in the dedication of the exhibition
Hawai`iloa, Ka `Imi `Ike, Seeker of Knowledge as a proud testament to the
perpetuation of Hawaiian culture for generations to come.

The exhibition continues through June 4, 1995

On January 14, Bishop Museum will embark on an unforgettable journey with
its major exhibition, Hawai`iloa Ka `Imi `Ike, Seeker of Knowledge,
celebrating the voyaging achievements of the past and present-day Native
Hawaiians.

The exhibition, researched and created entirely by Bishop Museum, will
take you on an enlightening expedition through Hawaiian seafaring history
and into the present world of Polynesian voyaging.

*Experience the rigors of traditional sailing with hands-on activities,
interactive displays and computer simulations.
* Learn the skills of canoe-building, lashing, sail-making and wayfinding
through interpreters and interactive exhibitry.
* Assemble your own canoe and "travel back in time" to uncover the
voyaging pathways of early Hawaiians using museum artifacts, oral
traditions and archaeological clues.
* Sail a canoe from the South Pacific to Hawai`i with an interactive
computer voyaging game.
* Track the voyage of the Hokule`a and Hawai`iloa canoes.
* Learn to make a stone adze, one of the most important tools in ancient
Hawai`i.
* Try your hand at traditional lau hala plaiting, used to make mats and to
create the sails of the Hawai`iloa.
* See a display of more than 150 rare artifacts from the Museum€s
anthropological and ethnographic collections including paddles, fishhooks,
tools, anchors and canoe bailers, plus 40 canoe models from across
Polynesia.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE EXHIBIT AND VOYAGE CALL BISHOP MUSEUM AT
808-847-3511 OR WRITE TO : BISHOP MUSEUM THE STATE MUSEUM OF NATURAL AND
CULTURAL HISTORY, P.O. BOX 19000-A, HONOLULU, HAWAI`I, 96817-0916.

The Polynesian Voyaging Society, a sponsor of the canoe, can be reached
via the University of Hawaii Gopher (gopher.hawaii.edu/Around
Town/Polynesian Voyaging Society). URL:gopher://gopher2.hawaii.edu/11/PVS

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"Ho`omoe wai kahi ke kao`o (Hawaiian proverb)"

"Let all travel together like water flowing in one direction."



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Benton Kealii Pang

Botany Department         _

University of Hawai`i at Manoa



Benton@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu