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The legend of Kawelo : and other Hawaiian folk tales / collected and translated by Laura C.S. Green and Mary Kawena Pukui.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 1938
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Hawaiian
- Subjects (All):
- Tales--Hawaii.
- Tales.
- Hawaii.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (bookplate) (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Bishop's University. Library (stamp) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Castle, H. Ethelwyn A. (bookplate) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 185 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Field-work in folk-lore
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu, T.H. : [publisher not identified], 1936.
- Contents:
- Legend of Kawelo, by Kauluaau
- Oahu tales, collected by Laura Green
- Tales from Hawaii, collected by Mary Pukui.
- Notes:
- Two half-titles not included in the paging.
- Hawaiian and English on opposite pages.
- "Collected and translated by Miss Green and Mrs. Pukui for the folk-lore foundation of Vassar college ... the first and last group have appeared in its series."--Introd., signed M.W.B. [i.e. Martha W. Beckwith].
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel with her bookplate on front pastedown.
- Schimmel Collection copy has blue ink stamp ("Bishop's University Lennoxville Library") of the library of Bishop's University on front free endpaper; illustrated bookplate of H. Ethelwyn A. Castle (1872-1940) on front pastedown.
- OCLC:
- 12570311
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