Opening Chant (Oli)
Visitors entering the gallery where the kupeʻe is displayed are greeted by an oli written and chanted by Nālamakū Ahsing ’21.
Audio recordings
Many thanks to the members of our community who contributed their voices and ideas to this project:
Nālamakū Ahsing, Class of 2021
Horace Ballard, Assistant Curator, Williams College Museum of Art
Holly Edwards, Senior Lecturer in Art, Williams College
Ayami Hatanaka, Class of 2018
Healoha Johnston, Interim Director of Curatorial Affairs, Curator of the Arts of Hawaiʻi, Oceania, Africa, and the Americas at the Honolulu Museum of Art
Reverend Mark Longhurst, Pastor at First Congregational Church in Williamstown
Jeffrey Kapali Lyon, Associate Professor of Religion, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Sonya Mital, Class of 2018
K. Scott Wong, Charles R. Keller Professor of History, Williams College