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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Unwritten Literature of Hawaii, by Nathaniel Bright Emerson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Author: Nathaniel Bright Emerson Release Date: January 6, 2007 [EBook #20299] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK UNWRITTEN LITERATURE OF HAWAII *** Produced by Carlo Traverso, Renald Levesque and the Online Distributed Proofreaders Europe at http://dp.rastko.net, This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliotheque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica). [Illustration BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN 38 PLATE I FEMALE DANCING IN HULA COSTUME] [Page 1] SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN 38 UNWRITTEN LITERATURE OF HAWAII THE SACRED SONGS OF THE HULA COLLECTED AND TRANSLATED, WITH NOTES AND AN ACCOUNT OF THE HULA BY NATHANIEL B. EMERSON, A.M., M.D. WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1909 [Page 2][Blank] [Page 3] PREFATORY NOTE Previous to the year 1906 the researches of the Bureau were restricted to the American Indians, but by act of Congress approved June 30 of that year the scope of its operations was extended to include the natives of the Hawaiian islands. Funds were not specifically provided, however, for prosecuting investigations among these people, and in the absence of an appropriation for this purpose it was considered inadvisable to restrict the systematic investigations among the Indian tribes in order that the new field might be entered. Fortunately the publication of valuable data pertaining to Hawaii is already provided for, and the present memoir by Doctor Emerson is th
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