Abstract

The Halla Huhm Dance Collection includes still photographs, films, newspaper clippings, performance programs, correspondence, awards, and other related ephemera documenting the dance undertakings of Halla Pai Huhm. Materials record her activities in Hawai‘i and those of her dance studio in Honolulu from approximately 1949 through her death in 1994, as well as studio activities through 1997. Some materials are from Japan and Korea, prior to her 1949 arrival in Hawai‘i.

The materials document an important contribution to the activities of Korean immigrants in Hawai‘i as well as the activities of a woman who received her original dance training during an important transitional period in the development of Korean dance. They are valuable resources for studies in a broad spectrum of humanities areas, including dance ethnology, ethnic studies, Asian studies, ethnomusicology, anthropology, art history, aesthetics, religion, and women’s studies.