Kalama Hawaii Nei 1837 （HM28)

1837 KALAMA HAWAII NEI

1837 Kalama (Lahainaluna) Hawaii Nei
This is a superior reproduction of the original antique map of “Na Mokupuni O Hawaii Nei” at the Lahainaluna press in 1937. It is the first separate map of the Hawaiian Islands published in Hawaii. It was engraved and drawn by Kalama, one of the best student engravers at the Lahainaluna Mission School on Maui, who made the larger 1838 Map of the Hawaiian Islands, of which only two copies are known. This 1837 map probably served as a prototype for the 1838 map. It was the most detailed map yet published, showing many place names on the islands unfamiliar to Cook and Vancouver and not appearing on their maps. Kalama went on to become one of the best surveyors in the islands.