Na Mele Aimoku, Na Mele Kupuna, a Me Na Mele Ponoi O Ka Moi Kalakaua: Dynastic Chants, Ancestral Chants, and Personal Chants of King Kalākaua I

by David Kalākaua

Created as a gift to honor King Kalākaua, this is the only book of Hawaiian poetic compositions published during the Hawaiian Monarchy period. This privately published collection of 48 chants was a commemorative gift to the King at the elaborate two-week celebration held to mark his fiftieth birthday in 1886. Only seven copies of the original are known to exist today including one copy at the Hawaiian Historical Society Library.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 094504805X
• ISBN13: 9780945048053
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Hawaiian Historical Society
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.