Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 23, Number 8, 1 August 2006 — Life in the Pacific of the 1700$ [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Life in the Pacific of the 1700$

Edited by Stephen Little and Peter Ruthenberg Honolulu Academy of Arts; Box set $1 50; pocket catalog $10

Wish you could have seen for one last time the Honolulu Academy of Arts' historic Life

in the Pacific of the 1700s exhibit, featuring native objects collected by Captain Cook and his crew during his second and third voyages through the Pacific? Well, here's the next best thing: The Academy has released a massive three-volume box set that includes portraits of all 350 cultural objects displayed in the exhibit. Complementing the photographs are descriptions of the items and a map of Cook's voyages that ean be used to locate where eaeh object originated. The last two volumes of the set feature a facsimile copy of King Kalākaua's

1881 version of the Hawaiian creation chant Kumulipo, as well as essays by various curators, scholars and Pacific Island culture experts. For the more frugal, the Academy also released a pocket guide to the exhibit.