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Cultural Heritage Imaging

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Huliauapaʻa is a non-profit organization whose mission is to grow Hawaiʻi’s communities through culturally based forms of innovative learning, leadership development, and collaborative networking in wahi kūpuna stewardship. In an effort to help preserve Hawaiʻi’s cultural legacy/heritage, and with grant support from National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Huliauapaʻa is collaborating with Cultural Heritage Imaging (CHI) providing two 5-day training sessions in Advanced Imaging and Archiving Skills in Hilo, Hawaiʻi.

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Advanced Imaging & Archiving Skills Training

The overarching goal of the program was to create a sustainable community of practice among Indigenous people in Hawaiʻi for photography-based documentation of cultural material and sites.  The primary techniques participants were trained on are:

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  1. Documentary Photography

  2. Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI)

  3. Photogrammetry for producing 3D Models;

  4. Workflow that includes producing archival data to allow reuse and longevity of the produced digital representations.

RTI Example of bone fishhook tab from Kahaluʻu graciously provided by University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo's Anthropology Department Collections

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