Description: HAWAIIAN ANTIQUITIES & FOLK-LORE Illustd by Jean Charlot also SIGNED w/ CARTOON POB#52656 TITLE: Selections from Fornander's Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-Lore AUTHOR: Samuel H Elbert PUBLISHER: Honolulu: University of Hawaii DATE: 1959EDITION: First Edition. Richardson B57 DESCRIPTION: 297 pages Large paperback with introduction, translations and notes in English, original text in Hawaiian. CONDITION NOTES: FINE but a light splatter to fore edge.BINDING: Paperback..Fornander's Hawaiian Antiquities is a muti-volume, comprehensive collection of Hawaii's extensive body of folk lore and mythology. The present work is a popular, illustrated selection of its best loved stories, in original Hawaiian and English translation. Illustrated throughout by tby Jean Charlot who practiced mural art in the tradition of Mexican masters such as Diego Rivera, applying a similar monumental style to Hawaiian themes. The drummer decorating the front cover resembles one of Jean Charlot's murals at University of Hawaii where. INSCRIPTIONS: Signed to Helene by Jean Charlot and again to Helene in Hawaiian, probably a gift inscription, by Kamuela. Who drew the man, the palm, and the little fish - Jean Charlot or Kamuela, we can't know, but the fish appears to be in the style of Charlot and is rendered in the same color pen.Jean Chalot Listing and template services provided by inkFrog
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Author: Samuel H Elbert
Binding: Paperback
Illustrator: Jean Chalot
Language: English
Original/Facsimile: Original
Place of Publication: Honolulu, Hawaii
Publisher: University of Hawaii
Signed: Yes
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Topic: Folklore, Mythology
Year Printed: 1959
