Supporting Bishop Museum’s Work to Digitize Native Hawaiian Language Newspapers
Supporting Bishop Museum’s Work to Digitize Native Hawaiian Language Newspapers
Our friends at the Bishop Museum continue to holomua (progress) with digitizing nūpepa Hawaiʻi kahiko (historical Hawaiian newspapers), and recently welcomed Congressman Ed Case to visit them at work. Congressman Case shared his understanding of the many possibilities unlocked by digitizing old newspapers.
One recent treasure the team uncovered was in an edition of the newspaper Ka Elele Poakolu. In it the team found an acrostic mele by what appears to be Kalākaua (under the pen name T. Affy) informing their readership of the work it takes to put out a newspaper.
Another issue of the many being digitized: Ke Au Hou, which as its name suggests is focused on a new era. Featured on its front page is Bishop Museum itself, which is, as stated in the article, “one of the first stone buildings of this era.” Innovation comes full circle with this project, as we support the perpetuation of traditional knowledge through new technology.
