Hula Marionette "Hula ki'i"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Dec 1909
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Nathaniel B. Emerson
label: Donor Name
content: Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "All of these marionettes (E258049-54) were employed in the hula ki'i, or marionette hula, a performance that resembled our Punch and Judy show and was accompanied by a dance." This set of marionettes are illustrated, with a lengthy discussion of hula ki'i, in Nathaniel Emerson, 1909, "Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula" BAE Bulletin 38. p. 91-102
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Apr 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Hawaii (Hawaiʻi), United States, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 050958
label: USNM Number
content: E258053-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Marionette