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The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, designated the Hawaiʻi State Museum of Natural and Cultural History, is a museum of history and science in the historic Kalihi district of Honolulu on the Hawaiian island of Oʻahu. Founded in 1889, it is the largest museum in Hawaiʻi and has the world's largest collection of Polynesian cultural artifacts and natural history specimens. Besides the comprehensive exhibits of Hawaiian cultural material, the museum's total holding of natural history specimens exceeds 24 million,[2] of which the entomological collection alone represents more than 13.5 million specimens, making it the third-largest insect collection in the United States.
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referencedIn Carter, Joseph Oliver, 1835-1909. Papers of Joseph Oliver Carter, 1893-1935. Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens
creatorOf Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum. List of New Guinea localities, 1966 / Bishop Museum. University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hamilton Library
referencedIn Pratt family photograph collection, 1799-1990, 1850-1865 Utah State University. Merrill-Cazier Library. Special Collections and ArchivesUniversity Archives
contributorOf Fishhook Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum
creatorOf Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum. Native plant distributions in the Hawaiian Islands (based on collections at BISH) / [Bernice P. Bishop Museum. National Tropical Botanical Garden
referencedIn Degener, Otto, 1899-. Otto Degener records, 1920-1987. New York State Historical Documents Inventory
referencedIn Degener, Otto, 1899-. Otto Degener records 1920-1987. New York Botanical Garden, The LuEsther T. Mertz Library
creatorOf Bryan, E. H. (Edwin Horace), 1898-1985. Check list of insects and other land arthropoda recorded from Fiji : transcribed from the card catalog in Bernice P. Bishop Museum : contains references to about 1936 / [compiled by E.H. Bryan, Jr.]. University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hamilton Library
referencedIn Frank J. Radovsky Papers, 1957-2008, 1975-2005 Oregon State University SpecialCollections & Archives Research Center
creatorOf Buck, Peter Henry, 1877?-1951. Field notebooks on Maori life and customs, illustrated with drawings, 1907-1926 [microform] National Library of New Zealand
creatorOf Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum. Institutional file. Brooklyn Museum Libraries & Archives
referencedIn Papers of Edwin Bunting Bartram, 1925-1963 Botany Libraries
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associatedWith Bryan, E. H. (Edwin Horace), 1898-1985. person
associatedWith Buck, Peter Henry, 1877?-1951. person
associatedWith Carter, Joseph Oliver, 1835-1909. person
associatedWith Degener, Otto, 1899- person
associatedWith Pratt family. family
associatedWith Radovsky, Frank J. person
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