Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 2, Number 12, 1 Kekemapa 1985 — Exhibition Update [ARTICLE]

Exhibition Update

Here is an update on exhibitions at the Bishop Museum: Playthings and Pastimes: Historical Images of Childhood in Hawaii — This exhibition pays homage to ethnic variations on the uncomplicated amusements of childhood. Late 19th and early 20th century photographs of children and their play activities are displayed along with a seiection of playthings, including a coconut bull roarer, hanafuda cards, marbles, Hawaiian jacks and a magic eoin box. There are also rubber-band shooters, dragon ball and eup games, kukui nut tops, bamboo water guns, coconut frond toys and Hawaiian string figures. In the Jabulka entrance gallery, Monday through Friday and the first Sunday of eaeh month, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Through 1986. Free. Celebrating the Maori: Maori Collections of Bishop Museum. Tangata: The Maori Vision of Mankind. Photographs by Brian Brake. An exhibition of selected items from the museum's Maori collections complimented by an exhibition of Maori carvings by award-winning New Zealand photographer Brake. In the Kahili Room and vestibule gallery of the main exhibition building, Monday through Saturday and the first Sunday of eaeh month, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Through June, 1986. Admission. Centennial Celebration: An Early Record of Government Contract Japanese Immigrants in Hawaii — An exhibition of photographs and artifacts representative of the arrival and subsequent life of the kanyaku imin, or Japanese government contract laborers, who eame to Hawaii during the early years. In the gallery of the Hawaii Immigrant Heritage Preservation Center, Monday through Saturday and the first Sunday of eaeh month, 9a.m. to 5 p.m. Through summer 1986. Free