・This is a reprint of Bernice P. Bishop Bulletin 53, authored by renowned Kenneth Emory and published by the Museum in 1928.・This unique book is a collection of the notes, maps, photographs collected during the Tanager Expeditions of 1923-24.・The Tanager Expeditions were organized, in part, to record sites and collect archaeological specimens from Nihoa and Necker.Nihoa and Necker are two islands that mark the transition form the high islands in the southeastern part of the Hawaiian archipelago to the atolls scattered throughout the northwestern part of the archipelago. According to Hawaiian oral traditions and the archaeological record, these islands were the northwestern frontier of the lands populated by Polynesians who first settled the archipelago.