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Anyone with an interest in Hawaii’s ancient history, traditions, ruling families and religion needs to read this book. Filled with haunting photographs taken in the early 1900s, Part One of the book tells the little-known story of the life and death of twin brothers Keoua who were cousins to King Kamehameha. Raised in the same household, the royal cousins were dramatically different personalities contending for leadership of the hundred-year-old Keawe Dynasty of Hawaii Island. Part Two takes a fascinating look at the contents of the Forbes Cave, discovered in 1905, that is believed to be their burial tomb.
ISBN: 9781635875850

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The Hawaiian Calabash

This book traces the story of the Hawaiian calabash, beginning when wooden calabashes were almost exclusively royal possessions in ancient Hawaii. Calabash making continued as a vigorous and enduring tradition into the 1900s, when the calabash had evolved from a utilitarian object to a true object of art.

ISBN: 0915013096

Hawaiian Furniture and Hawaii’s Cabinetmakers, 1820-1940

Hawaiian Furniture & Hawaii’s Cabinetmakers, 1820-1940 was awarded the Charles F. Montgomery Award from the New York Decorative Arts Society of the Society of Architectural Historians, for the most outstanding first work in the field for 1983.  The book was praised as “a work of stature” that “expands the boundaries of the study of American furniture.”

ISBN: 0960793844