Kaka'olelo: Traditions of Oratory and Speech Making local issues Tattooing in the Marshall Islands

Tattooing in the Marshall Islands is the first scholarly compilation about the history

even for a clearly-talented writer

and even the garishly-tinted postcards and colorful fabric designs that have all been unseed for decades

—The San Francisco Chronicle

Throughout their journey

Kaka'olelo: Traditions of Oratory and Speech Making local issues Tattooing in the Marshall IslandsIn one of his last published papers, Te Rangi Hiroa (Sir Peter Buck), the only Polynesian director of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, asked what happened to Hawaiian oratory and speech making. Oratory is renowned throughout the Pacific, especially in Polynesia. But who were, and are, the great Hawaiian orators? What are the most memorable of the traditional speeches, and why are they remembered and recited today? Malcolm Nea Chun takes up this Maori