Mary Kawena Pukui

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Mary Abigail Kawenaʻulaokalaniahiʻiakaikapoliopelekawahineʻaihonuainaleilehuaapele Wiggin Pukui (* 1895 , † 1986 ), known as Kawena , was an internationally recognized authority on the Hawaiian way of life, literature and linguistics. She was a traditional hula dancer , composer and educator.

Life

Mary Kawena Pukui was born in the Kaʻu District on the island of Hawaii . Her parents were the indigenous mother Mary Paʻahana Kanakaʻole and Henry Wiggin from Massachusetts . According to the traditional tradition of hanai , she was first raised by her mother's parents. Her grandmother, a traditional hula dancer at the court of Queen Emma of Hawaii, taught her songs and stories, while her grandfather was a healer and kahuna pale keiki ( obstetrician ) who taught Lomi Lomi massage , healing with herbs (laʻau lapaʻau), used the Ho'oponopono (reconciliation process) and taught the pule system of prayer . Her great-great-grandmother was a kahuna pule (haw. Priestess) in the Pele line. After her grandmother's death, she returned to her parents' home, where she spoke both Hawaiian and English.

She attended school at the Hawaiian Mission Academy and taught Hawaiian culture at the Punahou School . Pukui was fluent in Hawaiian and collected and translated Hawaiian folk wisdom and stories. From 1938 to 1961 she worked at the Bernice P. Bishop Museum as an ethnological assistant and translator. She also taught Hawaiian to a number of students and served as an informant for numerous anthropologists . She has published more than 50 scholarly writings and co-authored the Hawaiian-English Dictionary (1957, revised 1986), the Place Names of Hawaii (1974) and The Echo of Our Song (1974), a translation of ancient chantings and chants. Her book ʻOlelo Noʻeau contains around 3000 examples of Hawaiian proverbs and poetic expressions, translated and commented on. The two-volume work Nana i ke Kumu, Look to the Source , is an invaluable source of Hawaiian customs and traditions. She was an expert in chanting and hula dancing, wrote lyrical texts and composed the music for over 150 Hawaiian songs.

In addition to her published work, Pukui's knowledge has also been preserved in her commentaries, oral stories, hundreds of pre-recorded audio tapes from the 1950s and 1960s, as well as a few film clips, all of which were collected at the Bishop Museum. She was often said to have made the Hawaiian Renaissance of the 1970s possible with her work . She was honored as Living Treasure of Hawaii by the Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii in 1977 and inducted into the Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame in 1995.

Fonts (selection)

  • with ES Craighill Handy and Katherine Livermore: Outline of Hawaiian Physical Therapeutics (= Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Bulletin. Vol. 126, ISSN  0005-9439 ). The Museum, Honolulu HI 1934.
  • with Henry Pratt Judd and John FG Stokes: Introduction to the Hawaiian Language. Tongg Publishing Company, Honolulu HI 1943.
  • with Samuel H. Elbert: Hawaiian-English Dictionary. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu HI 1957 (numerous editions).
  • with ES Craighill Handy: The Polynesian family system in Ka-'u, Hawaii. The Polynesian Society, Wellington 1958.
  • with EW Haertig and Catherine A. Lee: Nānā i ke Kumu. = Look to the source. 2 volumes. Hui Hanai, Honolulu HI 1972-1979.
  • with Samuel H. Elbert: Place names of Hawaii. And Supplement to the third Edition of the Hawaiian-English Dictionary. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu HI 1966 (Revised and enlarged edition. With Samuel H. Elbert and Esther T. Mookini. Ibid 1974, ISBN 0-8248-0208-X ).
  • as editor with Alfons L. Korn: The Echo of our Song. Chants & Poems of the Hawaiians. University Press of Hawaii, Honolulu HI 1973, ISBN 0-8248-0248-9 .
  • Olelo No'eau. Hawaiian Proverbs & Poetical Sayings (= Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Special Publication. Vol. 71). Collected, translated, and annotated. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu HI 1983, ISBN 0-910240-92-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chad Blair: Kawena's Legacy . In: Hana Hou! The Magazine of Hawaiian Airlines. Vol. 10, No. 4, January 7, 2008, pp. 8–15, accessed on February 6, 2014.
  2. ↑ Mike Gordon: Mary Kawena Pukui . In: the.honoluluadvertiser.com . July 2, 2006. Accessed December 31, 2011.
  3. ↑ Mike Gordon: Mary Kawena Pukui . In: the.honoluluadvertiser.com . July 2, 2006. Retrieved February 17, 2011.
  4. ↑ Burl Burlingame: Author aided revival of Hawaiian tongue . In: Honolulu Star Bulletin , November 1, 1999. Retrieved March 9, 2010. 
  5. ↑ 1995 Hall of Fame Honoree: Mary Kawena Pukuʻi . Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame. 1995. Retrieved October 20, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Pukui, Mary Kawena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pukui, Mary Abigail Kawenaʻulaokalaniahiʻiakaikapoliopelekawahineʻaihonuainaleilehuaapele Wiggin; Kawena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hawaiian dancer, composer and educator
DATE OF BIRTH 1895
DATE OF DEATH 1986