THE HAWAIIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY VOLUME Hawaiian Historical Society

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1 THE HAWAIIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY VOLUME Hawaiian Historical Society

2 Hawaiian Historical Society Publishers EDITOR Michael E. Macmillan ASSOCIATE EDITORS Daniel Boylan Professor of History, University of Hawai'i-West O'ahu Helen G. Chapin Professor of English and Vice President and Dean for Satellite Programs, Hawai'i Pacific University Lela Goodell Cataloger, Hawaiian Mission Children's Society Library, retired Frances Jackson Associate Library Specialist, University of Hawai'i, retired E. Alison Kay Professor of Zoology, University of Hawai'i Eleanor C. Nordyke Population Specialist, East-West Population Institute, retired Philip F. Rehbock Professor, History and General Science Departments, University of Hawai'i Robert C. Schmitt State Statistician, Hawai 'i State Department of Business and Economic Development, retired Amy K. Stillman Assistant Professor of Music, University of California, Santa Barbara BOOK REVIEW EDITOR Nancy J. Morris Head of Archives and Manuscripts, University of Hawai'i Library BIBLIOGRAPHER Chieko Tachihata Hawaiian Curator, Special Collections, Hamilton Library, University of Hawai'i EDITORIAL INFORMATION 560 Kawaiahao St., Honolulu, Hawai'i Phone: MEMBERSHIP Annual Memberships: Senior Citizen (over 65) $25.00 per year Regular $30.00 per year Contributing (family) $50.00 per year Sponsor $ per year Associate $ per year Corporate Business $ per year Educational Institution $30.00 per year Life Memberships: Partner $1, Benefactor $2, Patron $5, Members receive thejournaland the newsletter free of charge and are entitled to a discount on publications. A catalog of the Society's publications and of other books for sale will be sent free of charge on request. SUBSCRIPTIONS Checks for subscriptions and dues should be made payable to the Hawaiian Historical Society and mailed to the editorial address above. Single copies and back issues of The Hawaiian Journal of History are available from the Society. Please notify the Society of changes of address. Articles are indexed in America History and Life ISSN: Composition and manufacture of this journal are through the production services program of the University of Hawaii Press. Cover design by Barbara Pope. Printed on acidfree paper.

3 THE HAWAIIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY Devoted to the History ofhawai'i, Polynesia, and the Pacific Area Volume ARTICLES Population Trends in Hawai'i Before TOM DYE Waialua: Voices from the Past 21 ROY KAKULU ALAMEIDA Grog Shops and Hotels: Bending the Elbow in Old Honolulu 35 RICHARD A. GREER The Great Chinese Merchants' Ball of BOB DYE The Death of the Prince ofhawai'i: A Retrospective Diagnosis 79 ALFRED D. MORRIS "Na Lei O Hawai'i": On Hula Songs, Floral Emblems, Island Princesses, and Wahi Pana 87 AMY KU'ULEIALOHA STILLMAN Early Island Conventions 109 ROBERT C. SCHMITT Annie Montague Alexander: Explorer, Naturalist, Philanthropist 113 RIANNA M. WILLIAMS The Murals of Ipapandi Chapel, Chios: A Cultural Bridge Between Hawai'i and Greece 129 NANCY J. MORRIS

4 THE HAWAIIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY NOTES & QUERIES Submissions by Robert C. Schmitt and Rhoda E. A. Hackler 157 BOOK REVIEWS The First Strange Place: The Alchemy of Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii 163 BETH BAILEY AND DAVID FARBER Reviewed by Daniel Boylan She Was a Sister Sailor: The Whaling Journals of Mary Brewster, EDITED BY JOAN DRUETT Reviewed by Jane Silverman Paradise Remade: The Politics of Culture and History in Hawai'i 167 ELIZABETH BUCK Reviewed by Kevin M. Roddy The Gifts of Civilization: Germs and Genocide in Hawai'i 169 o. A. BUSHNELL Reviewed by Alfred W. Crosby Fruitful Fields: Amercian Missionary Churches in Hawaii 171 ALAN GOWANS, DAINA PENKIUNAS, AND AUGIE SALBOSA Reviewed by William R. Chapman The Specter of Communism in Hawaii 173 T. MICHAEL HOLMES Reviewed by Edward D. Beechert Japanese Immigrant Clothing in Hawaii: BARBARA F. KAWAKAMi Reviewed by Eileen H. Tamura At Sea with the Scientifics: The Challenger Letters of Joseph Makin 177 EDITED BY PHILIP F. REHBOCK Reviewed by E. Alison Kay Reconciling the Past: Two Basketry Ka'ai and the Legendary Liloa and Lonoikamakahiki 178 ROGER G. ROSE Reviewed by Davianna Pomaika'i McGregor Architecture in Hawai'i: A Chronological Survey 182 ROB SANDLER Reviewed by William R. Chapman Americanization, Acculturation and Ethnic Identity: The Nisei Generation in Hawaii 185 EILEEN H. TAMURA Reviewed by Paul Spickard

5 CONTENTS High Tea at Halekulani: Feminist Theory and American Clubwomen 188 MARGIT MISANGYI WATTS Reviewed by Ann L. Halsted BIBLIOGRAPHY Hawaiiana in 1993: A Bibliography of Titles of Historical Interest 191 CHIEKO TACHIHATA ON THE COVER Adele Robinson Lemke in pa'u rider garb, Pa'u riders were an important component in the parades and festivals described in the article beginning on page 87. Photo by Ray Jerome Baker from the Hawaiian Historical Society collection Hawaiian Historical Society. Printed in the United States of America.

6 Abbreviations ABCFM AH BH BHL BHM BPBM BPRO CCM DB DPI EB F FO & Ex FOLB HA HAA HBC HG HHS HJH HMCS HSB ID IDLB IDLF IDM MH P PCA PCR PP RHAS SIG SIN SSB & A American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions State Archives of Hawai'i Board of Health, AH Board of Health Letters, AH Board of Health Minutes, AH Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum British Public Record Office Cabinet Council Minutes, AH Daily Bulletin Department of Public Instruction, AH Evening Bulletin The Friend Foreign Office and Executive File, AH Foreign Office Letter Book, AH Honolulu Advertiser Hawaiian Almanac and Annual; also known as Thrum's Annual Hawai'i State Bureau of Conveyances Hawaiian Gazette Hawaiian Historical Society Hawaiian Journal of History Hawaiian Mission Children's Society Honolulu Star-Bulletin Interior Department, AH Interior Department Letter Book, AH Interior Department Land File, AH Interior Department Miscellaneous, AH Missionary Herald Polynesian Pacific Commercial Advertiser Privy Council Records, AH Paradise of the Pacific Royal Hawaiian Agricultural Society Sandwich Islands Gazette Sandwich Islands News Sunday Star-Bulletin and Advertiser