HAWAIIAN HULA
genealogies
THE LAIE
connection
the interest of the present with the actual performers and ritua
ls of the past
rituals
ishmael stagner
it
such
there is nothing more synonymous with hawaii and hawaiians than the hula
an
art
form and
style its origins are
As
wrapped up in metaphysical beginnings
origin
does not propose to discuss the
but
itpurpose
rather it3ppurpose
it purpose is to reconstruct the hula
kumu
fumu
hula
huia or hula masters
and who
and development of the hula
by looking
their instructors
were
propose to do is to create a hawaiian hula genealogy
recognizing that
trembling
years
I am
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relying
on memories
historical records that are incomplete
at
I1 do
that are often
in the field research
deepinthefield
ies that often handicap any kind of deep
with
I1 have comes from
some
of the kunu hula
hiram hoke
c
mainly three sources
b
sally
such as
research done
by
other writers
whatever public records were available
hula workshops
the process
dimmed by
chanter for aloha
the
thus the informa-
Zutter
zuttermeister
melster
meister
kaui Zutte
huttemeister
zuttemeister
tutte
some
either
from newspapers
show who
of the differences in the
while the present
and
hawaiian rennaisance
archives
afew
aw
taught tfew
many
it
has been the hula masters
themselves
own
selected aunty
was
instructor sally
or
was known as a
her students were expected to
understood
in
aunty
hula styles pre-
if
one takes a look
sallys first
at
its
the thread that has tied
community
it
on
thirty
and was for over
know
who
strict disciplinarian
first
and
stern task-
as much about the philosophical
thus
sally
dance technicians
this
as they could
was concerned
can be
to re
settle in
resettle
laie in
who
partially
1865
that laie
lived in laie
when
laie
it
became
was known
hawaiian singing and dancing in the pre kal
kai akaua
akaba and ka1alkaua
kalakaua
kal5vkaua years
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and
she studied and learned her hula from
might be well to point out here
reasons help to explain this
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consultant to the state council
major instructor was lucy logan munson
and whose family were among the
has created a well-
and
also royal court
hula studio
that she produce hula artists rather than
kaciko
particularly the ancient dances or kahiko
who have been
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and because of her reputation
festival judge
merry monarch
psychological aspects of their dances
and
and
a
years kuru hula for her
a mormon
spring of support for hawaiian dancing
naluai
in addition to having taught scores of students
instructor
inc
week
the hawaiian heritage
master
eleanor
and shared generously with me
the purpose of the genealogy is to
possibly explain
sently in hawaii
wood
me
wood
and
interviews conducted personally
a
aoam keala
sally moam
moanikeala
model
at the polynesian cultural center for fourteen years she
As an
tion
my
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professional jealous-
and family and
have chosen as
as a kumu
fumu hula throughout hawaii
result what
this with fear
as students and appreciators
appreciatory of the hula to look to
then
sally basically because of her friendship with
some contemporary
As a
all
both living and dead and give them the credit that they deserve
our sources
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this paper
behooves us
As
two
as a mormon community did not support
for
generally
and
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the prohibitions against the hula that characterized other communities
relatives
and friends
joined the
mahinu
and nahinu
kahinu
mormon
of the musically talented Kalakau
kalakauas
as such as
church and lived in
mileau as lucy logan munson was bom
and hula mileiu
born
the
church
mormon
branch president
a
or in laie or both were
and in his
katie kekaula also called
pua haaheo was
yea rs
later years
Mekeota
and
it
laie
among
sam pua
was
into such
haaheo
a
reknow ned fumu
kumu hula
a reknowned
policeman
sally learned
teamed something from all of
little
is
known
and were born
bom sometime in the
it
was
not until
much
o
laa
and emma
hopefully
they often taught each
came
who game
honolulu mayor
was
graduates
others students
but keaka kanahele learned
kaanapali coast of
graduated
logalia learned
lokalia
a Kali
kaua
kail
kall
kalakaua
maui
kumu hula
as her fumu
un ikid under
or unikid
unioid
from a number of people
pukui lists joseph
court dancer and wife of
a former
kawena
kacena also learned from keahi luahine who
oli
speak the hawaiian language
an
then
we
also
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and
graduates at other levels were
mele but did not necessarily
the older oli and reie
or to change dances
what this genealogical information can do
is to help develop in the
and others of aunty
sallys
appreciation of the authenticity and beauty of the dances and dance
there is
can drink deep of the spring
such a source
from the
and chants
and teaching
compose
that she could
sen
almai
safrify
awal and san
mariteragi
Sar
sarmariteragi
students of cy bridges keith awai
them
later that sally herself
fenn
bem
silva fern
fem
right to
have the
meant
mele
styles that they are learning
to mary kawena
kacena pukui as her main teacher
credit
but gives cr
editto
ilalaole
kanahele
later 1700s
another hula great logalia
lokalia montgomery
own songs
restricted to learning
to kaui zuttermeister
Zutter meister and keaka
of lucy logan munsons teachers
Kamawaee and niu
her chants from kamawae
kamawal
could compose her
mormon
katie kekaula
this
tion in the hula system
friend
since these kuru hula were good friends
thus
a musical
Keaka
keakaokala
okala
Kawenas cousin
kawenas
kacenas
alapa dancer which was the highest form of graduaaunty sally graduated as an olapa
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pele kaio
luika pete
also the uncle by marriage
and lucy munsons good
Ka lehano
her contemporaries either in
kanahele and luika pele kaio were grandparents to eleanor hiram
eleanors aunt
Ka
wenas daughter and lolani
iolani makekau
camak
kawenas
namakakawenals
taught namak
kacenas
is aunty sally
wood
a hebrew saying
if
the source is pure
HULA
loani
keala
sally floanikeala
loanikeala
kamawae
kamawal
pua
wood
genealogies
naluai
mary kacena
kawena
ni u ola
haaheo
katle
katie
nakaula
eana
Yana
kanahele
hele
heie
sally
leilani
F
wood
robert cazimero
kawena pukui
kacena
lucy logan munson
keakaokaia
keakaokala
okala
Keaka
Lo
lalia
talla
taila
mont
vont
omer
ontgotnery
wayne chong
leinaala
joseph
ilalaole
keahi luahine
alice
aiice
namakelua
iolani luahine
mendez
cy bridges
keith awai
lovey apana
sunday mariteragi
delaa
ellen gay del
pukui
emma
silva fern
kawena
kacena puku
heine
maikl alu
malki
maiki
aiu lake
milton I1
kalena silva
kahai topolinski
pat bacon
momi
houlu cambra
heulu
kelii taua
i no
kepel
kepelino
pele suganuma
Hoa
hoakalei
kalei
kamauu
ghirard
kent gherard
rosa
emma
sharp
edith kanakaole
logalia
lokalia
manuel
kapua luahine
montgomery
silva
sliva
kaupena wong
henry pa
L sal ly
wood
vood
leilani
mendes
lovcy apana
lovey
doia rosa
dola
ellen gay ma
cy bridges
keith
awai
sunday mariteragi
helen waiau
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