THE HALLA HUHM DANCE COLLECTION: AN INVENTORY AND FINDING AID [revised May 2004] Judy Van Zile, editor Project Staff Paul Rausch, Project Coordinator Judy Van Zile, Principal Humanities Scholar Yong-ho Choe, Second Humanities Scholar Eun-hee Kim, Inventory/Cataloger Tammy Metz Starr, Inventory/Cataloger Ann Takahashi, Library Consultant Mary Jo Freshley, Collection Owner For additional information contact: Center for Korean Studies University of Hawai‘i at Manoa 1881 East-West Road Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96822 phone: (808) 956-7041 or Mary Jo Freshley c/o Halla Huhm Dance Studio 1502-B S. King St. Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96826 phone: (808) 949-2888 © 1998 by Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa Every effort has been made to accurately identify items in the Collection and to produce a broadly usable inventory and finding aid. Corrections to this document and additional information on items in the Collection are welcome, and should be conveyed to Mary Jo Freshley at the address above. The opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the project staff and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Hawai‘i Committee for the Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities, or any other supporting organizations or individuals. The biographical sketch of Halla Huhm was adapted from “Halla Pai Huhm: Portrait of a Korean- American,” and is copyrighted by Judy Van Zile. It may not be reproduced in any form without her permission. The original article by Van Zile was published in the Fall 1993 issue of Korean Culture. Chapter IV, Koreans in Hawai‘i, was authored by Yong-ho Choe, who also prepared the chronology. Eun-hee Kim was primarily responsible for romanizing and creating abstracts for Korean- and Japanese- language items. Japanese-language items were verified by Michiko Ueno-Herr. 2 The Halla Huhm Dance Collection: An Inventory and Finding Aid [revised May 2004] CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................5 II. THE COLLECTION..................................................................................................................7 III. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF HALLA HUHM ................................................................11 IV. KOREANS IN HAWAI‘I.......................................................................................................15 V. GUIDE TO USING THE INVENTORY.................................................................................19 VI. INVENTORY.........................................................................................................................25 CORRESPONDENCE .......................................................................................................... 25 AWARDS.............................................................................................................................. 35 FLYERS ................................................................................................................................ 38 PROGRAMS......................................................................................................................... 44 NEWSPAPERS: ENGLISH................................................................................................. 66 NEWSPAPERS: KOREAN ............................................................................................... 106 NEWSPAPERS: JAPANESE ............................................................................................ 124 PHOTOGRAPHS: GENERAL .......................................................................................... 132 PHOTOGRAPHS: HALLA HUHM.................................................................................. 166 MISCELLANEOUS............................................................................................................ 172 VII. CONTAINER LIST SUMMARY.......................................................................................179 APPENDIX A: CHRONOLOGY OF KOREANS IN HAWAI‘I ...............................................183 APPENDIX B: SUGGESTED READINGS ...............................................................................187 APPENDIX C: DANCE NAME KEYWORDS..........................................................................191 APPENDIX D: PEOPLE’S NAMES KEYWORDS...................................................................197 APPENDIX E: ORGANIZATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS KEYWORDS..............................203 APPENDIX F: OTHER KEYWORDS .......................................................................................205 I. INTRODUCTION The Halla Huhm Dance Collection is presently owned by Mary Jo Freshley. For many years Freshley had stored portions of the Collection, which was organized in the somewhat haphazard manner of many personal family collections, for Korean dancer Halla Pai Huhm. Upon Huhm’s death in 1994, Freshley integrated some of her own holdings into the Collection, and initiated procedures to organize, inventory, and preserve the materials. The Collection contains more than 8,000 individual items, spanning the period from the early 1900s to 1997. It is housed in 31 boxes, and occupies approximately 13 cubic feet of shelf space. It includes approximately 115 minutes of filmed materials. Certain restrictions as to the use or copying of materials in the Collection may apply. For permission information, contact Mary Jo Freshley at the location indicated on the inside of the front cover of this volume. Citation information in the finding aid for non-English-language materials is given in romanized form, followed, in brackets, by an English translation. Romanization of Korean words follows the McCune- Reischauer system; of Japanese words, the Hepburn system. The circumflex has been substituted for the macron in Japanese words, and for the breve in Korean words. There is a great deal of inconsistency in romanization in English-language materials in the Collection. In this finding aid, titles retain spellings of the original source, and all descriptive information follows the consistent romanization method, unless another romanization has become standard in Hawai‘i. Notable in this regard is the name of the individual around whom the Collection is based: “Halla Pai Huhm” is the way the woman became known in the islands, although the standard romanization of her name is Pae Halla Ham. In this document, names of individuals of Korean ancestry resident in the U.S. are given in the conventional manner: given name followed by family name. They follow the common, locally-used romanization. Names of Koreans residing in Korea are given in the Korean manner: family name followed by given name (with no comma separating the two). This volume goes beyond the usual concept of a finding aid for special collections in that it contains extensive introductory materials and provides detailed information on all items in the Collection. It therefore constitutes a combination finding aid and inventory. To help contextualize the Collection, brief essays are provided on Halla Huhm and on Koreans in Hawai‘i, and appendices include a chronology of Koreans in Hawai‘i and a list of suggested readings on Korean dance and Koreans in the islands. Organizing and archiving the Collection and producing this document were made possible by support from the Hawai‘i Committee for the Humanities, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Hawai‘i Community Foundation; the Halla Huhm Foundation; and the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa’s Center for Korean Studies. Grateful appreciation is extended to these organizations for their financial and administrative support. Acknowledgment for project assistance is also warmly extended to Stephen Reese, Vicky Wulff, Music Division of the Library of Congress, Dance Heritage Coalition (for use of a draft copy of their archiving manual), and Joel Bradshaw. The Halla Huhm Dance Collection:An Inventory and Finding Aid [revised May 2004] 5 II. THE COLLECTION 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. Born in Korea, Halla Huhm grew up in Japan during the days of the Japanese occupation. She married a Korean-American serviceman, and joined him in Hawai‘i. Because of the time in which she studied and her early mentors, some Koreans consider her dance repertoire more representative of a particular period in Korean dance development than the repertoire performed and documented in Korea. Her repertoire both continued that of her Korean teachers and changed. Over the years it reflected changes occurring in