Hawaiian Legacy Foundation: Eddie & Myrna Kamae

The Sons of Hawaiʻi perform "ʻŌkolehao" 7/7/87

B-roll footage recorded on July 7, 1987 for the documentary "Liʻa: The Legacy of a Hawaiian Man." Footage includes the Sons of Hawaiʻi at a pub performing the song "ʻŌkolehao." Men bring large jugs of water used as a prop for ʻōkolehao (liquor distilled from tī root in a still of the same name meaning "iron bottom"). Members of the Sons of Hawaiʻi include Eddie Kamae, Joe Marshall, Dennis Kamakahi and Claybourne "Braddah Smitty" Smith.

Hawaiian Legacy Foundation: Eddie & Myrna Kamae
Liʻa: The Legacy of a Hawaiian Man production materials

Subjects

Hawaiians
Kānaka ʻŌiwi
mele

Languages: English

Genres

Music

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