Welina: Traditional and Contemporary Ways of Welcome and Hospitality Pacific Island Spennemann is a recipient of

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Welina: Traditional and Contemporary Ways of Welcome and Hospitality Pacific Island Spennemann is a recipient ofHawaii may be the Aloha State, but what is traditional Hawaiian protocol? That was the challenge Hawaiians faced in 1985 when the first large group of Maori came to Honolulu to pay tribute to their relation, Te Rangi Hiroa, Sir Peter Buck, at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum where he had been the director. How were they greeted? What was the to be done? Welina, also a traditional term used for greeting, explores what traditional welcomes were like and