Legendary Surfers made me aware of the Wax Cylinder Preservation Project, which features many a hawaiian recording from back in the days.
Hawaiian Guitar cylinders
Ukulele cylinders
Xylophone cylinders
Marimba cylinders
Hawaii topic cylinders
while we’re at it:
Japanese cylinders
Guitar cylinders
And they sent this article right along, which describes the dawn of modern surfing in the islands, in the 1910s.