Images

Album leaf with Shi'a invocation in nasta' liq calligraphy, written by Muhammad Salih, Northern India, 17th century. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Menehune on Surfboard by D. Howard Hitchcock (1861-1943), 1924. The Menehune are short-statured forestd-dwelling people in Hawaiian mythology.

Daguerreotype of American missionary, Reverend Hiram Bingham I (1789–1869) - 1852. Bingham spent over twenty years in Hawaii.

Alekoko "Menehune" fishpond is a 102-acre (41.2 hectares) construction located along a bend of the Hule’ia River on the island of Kaua’i, Hawaii. The building of the fishpond is attributed to the mythical Menehune.

Facing stones in the Kīkīaola irrigation ditch, which is also known as the Menehune Ditch in Waimea, Kauai, Hawaii. Construction of the ditch is attributed to the Menehune - a mythical race of dimunitive Hawaiians.

Kīkīaola - also known as the Menehune Ditch - is an irrigation channel ('auwai) on Kauai, Hawaii, said to have been built by the Menehune.

Swedish-born Hawaiian ethnologist and judge, Abraham Fornander (1812-1887). Photograph taken in c. 1878.

Thomas George Thrum (1842-1932), Australian author of the Thrum's Hawaiian Annual.

A map illustrating the span, structure, and context of the 73 miles (118 km) Hadrian's Wall (also called the Vallum Aelii, Aelius being the family name of emperor Hadrian). Built by a force of more than 15,000 soldiers from the three Roman...

Meeting of Jean Cavalier, Camisard leader, and Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Marshal of France, in Nîmes on 16 May 1704, painting by Jules Salles, c. 1865. Musée des Beaux-arts de Nîmes.