Image: Hawaiian natives wearing kihei, with animals, sketch by Louis Choris (crop, central dog)
Description: Hawaiian natives wearing kihei, with animals, manuscript sketch by Louis Choris. The dog in the center has been claimed as the only extant image of a Hawaiian Poi Dog by Margaret Titcomb. "The small dog, middle rear, may have had more Hawaiian than foreign blood." This assessment is supported by anthropologist Katharine Luomala who noted: "The large dog at the left looks foreign. The smaller dog by the pig somewhat recalls the odd creature in Figures 7 and 8 [other Polynesian dogs]."
Title: Hawaiian natives wearing kihei, with animals, sketch by Louis Choris (crop, central dog)
Credit: Honolulu Academy of Arts Barratt, Glynn (1988) Russian View of Honolulu, 1809–1826, Ottawa: Carleton University Press, p. 294 ISBN: 978-0-7735-7349-9. OCLC: 16712356. (1969) Dog and Man in the Ancient Pacific, with Special Attention to Hawaii, Honolulu: Star-Bulletin Print. Company, p. 3 Luomala, Katharine (July 1960). "A History of the Binomial Classification of the Polynesian Native Dog". Pacific Science 14 (13): 193–223. Honolulu: Pacific Science Association.
Author: Louis Choris
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