Variety of natural and synthetic dyed kapa, printed with ' ole kapala (bamboo stamps). Part of the documentation in Hawaii's Local Legacies projects.

Hawaii

The American Folklife Center was created in 1976 by the U.S. Congress through Public Law 94-201 and charged to "preserve and present American folklife." The Center incorporates the Archive of Folk Culture, which was established at the Library of Congress in 1928, and is now one of the largest collections of ethnographic material from the United States and around the world.

Collections

Among its diverse holdings of traditional American music and folklore, the American Folklife Center's collections include recordings of Native Hawaiian music collected on wax cylinders by Kenneth Emory and Helen Roberts; a series of radio broadcasts on Hawaiian music by KCCN; and recordings of cowboys (na paniolo) and immigrant ethnic cultural groups.

• Hawaii Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture [full text]

Hawaii participated in the Library's Bicentennial Local Legacies project, which includes documentation of local traditions and celebrations for the American Folklife Center's Archive of Folk Culture.

• View Hawaii's Local Legacies Projects