Travel Reference
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Alexander and Baldwin Sugar Museum
Inside the museum, the Hawaiian Room houses artifacts of precontact Hawai'i such
as wooden spears, stone tools, knives made from conch shells, and daggers made from
shark's teeth. In the same room there are also stone
ki'i,
or statues, depicting the Hawaiian
war god Ku, expertly crafted wooden calabashes, and an exhibit of artifacts found on the
island of Kaho'olawe from both the pre- and post-bombing eras. Upstairs are two bed-
rooms which feature detailed information about the lineage of the Hawaiian royalty as well
as missionary-era furniture, jewelry boxes, clothing, and handmade quilts. Back down-
stairs is the room full of Bailey's paintings. Also for those who want to further their know-
ledge of the islands, the bookstore ranks as the best educational, cultural resource on the
island where you can find many of the best titles ever written on Hawaiian history.
There isn't a surfer on the planet who would pass up the chance to see the massive
redwood surfboard once surfed by the ambassador of aloha himself, Duke Kahanamoku.
Placed outside of the museum in an adjacent pavilion, the surfboard was built in 1910. It's
accompanied by a 33-foot-long outrigger canoe made from a single koa log.
