Hula Pahu, Hawaiian Drum Dances, Volume II: The Pahu, Sounds of Power Language University of the South Pacific

University of the South Pacific

each meticulously detailed and well illustrated

Hawaiian translation by Kaliko Beamer-Trapp

Reprinted: 2024

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Hula Pahu, Hawaiian Drum Dances, Volume II: The Pahu, Sounds of Power Language University of the South PacificBecause of its origins in legendary times, its religious connections, and its powerful sounds, the pahu is of singular importance in Hawaiian culture. In this thoroughly engrossing study, Elizabeth Tatar sets out to reconstruct the earliest vocabulary of Hawaiian chant and drumming. She surveys the evidence for the mythological origins of pahu, identifies similar sharkskin covered drums elsewhere in Polynesia, and discusses the physical attributes of