Na Lei Makamae: The Treasured Lei

Na Lei Makamae: The Treasured LeiUniversity of Hawaii Press Marie McDonald, Paul Weissich Hardcover, 183 pp. This volume covers eighty five flowers and plants (and another dozen color variations) used in traditional lei construction. They are arranged according to their Hawaiian names and accompanied by botanical information and descriptions gleaned from legends and chants that illustrate the cultural uses and special meanings of lei prior to Western contact. Many are introduced by

but her efforts failed

perpetuating collective harvests and sharing

This book is concerned with the culture of the Hawaiians before the first-known contact with foreigners

And within these stories are a multitude of dreams–as in a famous legend of the goddess Pele

and other materials published during his reign as Hawai‘i’s mō‘ī (sovereign) from 1874 to 1891

and above all his own people

Jenna Hickman

Westlake: Poems by Wayne Kaumualii Westlake

This image of the Myna (or Mynah) bird is from an original illustration I created for a greeting card

naturalist Kathy Valier describes more than sixty of the most common ferns growing wild in Hawaiʻi

Aloha set scents:

reflecting the careful and extensive research done for this volume at the Bishop Museum Library and Archives in Honolulu and at the American Museum of Natural History in New York