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The Building of the Hokule`a - 1973-75
Hokule‘a was completed and launched by the Polynesian Voyaging Society (PVS) in 1975.
The voyaging canoe was built in order to challenge the notion that Polynesians had discovered and settled the Pac...
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Hōkūle‘a Image Gallery (From 1973)
Hōkūle‘a Image Gallery (From 1973)
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Click on the image Mo‘olelo no Hōkūle‘a (Story of Hōkūleʻa) below to start a Quicktime Movie summary in photographs and t...
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On-Line Visuals
Visuals
Herb Kawainui Kane's Paintings
Herb Kawainui Kane's paintings appear in his two books "Voyagers" (Honolulu: Whalesong, 1991) and in "Ancient Hawai'i" (Captain Cook, Hawai'i: Kawainui Press, 19...
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Voyage of Rediscovery: 1985-87
Voyage of Rediscovery: 1985-87
Replicating a legendary voyage from Hawai'i to Tahiti and back in 1980 awakened in those who sailed Hokule'a a desire to sail to other ancestral homelands of Polynesia a...
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Voyaging into Polynesia's Past: The Founding of the Polynesian Voyaging Society
[Note: Originally published in
From Sea to Space (Palmerston North: Massey University, 1992, 5-65). Figures referred to in the article appear in original publication only.]
Ben Finney pioneered the r...
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Searching for a Way
Hokule'a's first voyage in 1976 was from Honolua Bay, Maui, to Papeete, Tahiti-a distance of twenty-five hundred miles.
Back in the early seventies, before Hokule'a was even built, when they were putt...