Pahu Pounders Feathered Cloaks and Capes ‘Ukulele Lei Niho Palaoa Micronesian Storyboards Shark Tooth Weapons Surfboards Twined Baskets Fishhooks ‘Umeke Quilts Ipu Pawehe Kapa Hand Kahili Woven Hats

The Bishop Museum's Ethnology Collection includes more than 70,000 objects from throughout the Pacific region.

Photographs and detailed information are available for more than 1000 cultural objects. We've grouped them to help you find some of the more popular cultural objects.

You can also browse our collections through the eyes of guest curators who have created web tours on different topics.

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Fabric Arts of Micronesia

Traditional Musical
Instruments of Hawai‘i

Model Canoes of the Pacific

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You can also search our entire database. We've set up some quick searches for fast browsing.

Visitors may also use advanced searches combining a number of criteria to help find a specific cultural object.


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