Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 4, Number 2, 1 February 1987 — Hoʻikeʻike on the Great Lawn Mar. 1 [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Hoʻikeʻike on the Great Lawn Mar. 1

Prince Kuhio Theme Retainedfor Family Sunday

Ho'ike'ike on the Great Lawn, whieh met with its greatest success on its 15th try as a Bishop Museum Family Sunday program last year, will onee again feature the Prince Kuhio Kalanianaole era Sunday, Mar. 1, utilizing the Museum facilities and its sprawling grounds. This Family Sunday program, whieh allows free admission to the grounds and Museum exhibits, is made possible this year through the corporate sponsorship of Hawaiian Telephone Company. It is being put together by the Oahu District Council, Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, headed by President Lila Medeiros. Sherry Evans is again the general chairperson of Ho'ike'ike 1987. Evans and her committee decided to keep the same Prince Kuhio era theme inasmuch as March is traditionally Prince Kuhio Month with these other scheduled programs in his honor: Sunday, Mar. 22, Ali'i Sunday at Kawaiahao Church; Mar. 23-27, 10th anniversary eelebration of Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole Federal Building; Thursday, Mar. 26, Mauna 'Ala services and program to follow at the Prince Kuhio Building; Thursday, Mar 26, Pnnee Kuhio Day celebration, Waimea Falls Park, Hawaiian crafts and demonstration and entertainment; Saturday, Mar. 28, Prince Kuhio programs on Hawaii, Maui and Kauai. All the programs are being incorporated as part of Ho'olako 1987 — Celebrate the Year of the Hawaiian.

In this regard, the Museum's Photograph Collection is providing special access to a unique collection of portraits of native Hawaiians taken in 1920-21 by Dr. Louis R. Sullivan, a physical anthropologist from the Ameriean Museum of Natural History in New York. The collection includes more than 500 portraits. While the collection was introduced at the Feb. 1 Family Sunday, it will again be available for Ho'ike'ike on the Great Lawn Mar. 1 and every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 1 p.m. to 4p.m. and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon, except holiday weekends. The Museum also offers a photo reproduction service for those who want to have copies of photos made. Everyone is invited to search for portraits of their 'ohana in the Ray Jerome Baker room on the third floor Of Paki Hall. The collection is titled, "Pulama No Ki'i, or "Cherish the Likeness." "I, myself, cried when I saw the fourth generation on my father's Hawaiian side in true form. It was food for the soul," wrote Mary Spinny Makole'a Green after finding her 'ohana in the Sullivan collection during the "Gathering of the Clans" Hawaiian geneological conferenee in Kailua, Kona, three months ago. Evans is encouraging as many members as possible and the general public to attend Ho'ike'ike in period dress of the Kuhio era. Among those who stood out in their respective period costumes last year were H.K. Bruss Keppeler, former president of the Oahu District Council; Dawn Farm-Ramsey; Benson Lee, president of the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs; and the flower vendors. While food booths have been limited to eight this year, there will be no shortage on the varieties. Visitors will have a good assortment from whieh to choose. Another change is that participating clubs are being asked to sell either food or crafts, not both. Also different will

be the crafts people who will be grouped together by what they're selling, i.e., flower and lei people in one area, lauhala sales and displays in another and so on. Also planned are a celebrity box luneh auction with proceeds going into the scholarship fund; treasure hunts for youngsters; hands-on educational programs; croquette, badminton, Hawaiian games and tapa making, demonstrations of lauhala weaving, lei making, feather lei making and Easter basket decorating. There will be something for everyone to view, participate or purchase. Continuous entertainment also is planned. Agnes K. Cope, executive director of the Waianae Culture and Arts Society, is the program chairperson. A Prince Kuhio look-alike contest also is planned and

there may be another hula contest for kupuna age 50 and over. Charles Alika of Kapahulu Florist was the look-alike winner while Mary Lou Kekuewa won the hula contest. Entries in these two contests last year, however, were very sparse. The first 14 years of Ho'ike'ike met with only sporadic success when held at Aloha Tower and McCoy Pavilion. Only eight clubs participated. In contrast, there were 17 participating clubs in the 1986 Ho'ike'ike when it was moved to the Museum and made a part of Family Sunday. It is the ohana concept and trying to re-live a part of the Kuhio era that the Council is attempting to establish. There were a few rough spots in last year's effort and the committee is trying to iron out some of the kinks in 1987.

This Bishop Museum photo is captioned "Mrs. Hopeau and Son, Pa'ia, Maui." It is one of more than 500 Sullivan Collection photos taken in Hawaii in 1920-21.