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The Hawaiian Archipelago: Six Months Among the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, and Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands. Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831 – 1904

Bird expresses her adoration for the Hawaiian Islands and discusses her many activities such as visiting volcanoes and horseback riding in the scorching heat. She also shows admiration towards the governmental structure of Hawaii regarding it as the…

Tags: 19th century, Book, European Exploration, Exploration, Government, Hawai'i, Hawaii, Hawaiian Archipelago, Horse Riding, Industry, Labourers, Sandwich Islands, Sugar, Sugar Plantation, Tourism, Travel, Travel literature, Volcano

The Hawaiian Star, ‘Divided Skirts’

This small section of the newspaper talks about tourist’s reactions to seeing Hawaiian women ride astride on horses rather than how European women typically rode side-saddle. Seeing this was particularly shocking for Western women as it had been more…

Tags: 19th century, Astride, Clothes, Clothing, Custom, Feminine, Hawai’i, Hawaii, Hawaiian Star, Horse Riding, Indigenous, Indigenous Women, Masculine, Newspaper, Riding, Side-saddle, Traditional Dress, Traditions, Women

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