Showing posts with label Pohukaina. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pohukaina. Show all posts
Thursday, July 31, 2014

Kaʻahumanu’s Coffin

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While on a trip to the continent, Queen Kamāmalu (age 22) died on July 8, 1824; King Kamehameha II (Liholiho, age 27) died six days late...
Sunday, July 13, 2014

Ana Huna

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Traditional Native Hawaiians believed ʻiwi (the bones) to be the primary physical embodiment of a person. Following death, ʻiwi were cons...
Monday, December 16, 2013

Gerrit P Judd

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In 1828, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mission (ABCFM) sent 20-people in the Third Company of missionaries to Hawaiʻi, ...
Monday, May 20, 2013

Ka Haku O Hawaiʻi

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The marriage of Alexander Liholiho and Emma was one of mutual love.  They had common interests in literature, music, opera, religion and...
Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Mother Waldron

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By the 1880s, residential construction began with the filling of fishponds, marshes and mudflats starting with the area closest to downt...
Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Mauna ‘Ala – Royal Mausoleum

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During the reign of Kamehameha IV, there was talk of building a new royal mausoleum (at the time, Hawaiʻi’s ruling chiefs were buried in...
Monday, September 10, 2012

Pohukaina

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ʻIolani Palace State Monument consists of ʻIolani Palace, Barracks, Coronation Pavilion, Kanaina Building (Old Archives Building), Kekau...
Friday, August 24, 2012

Liholiho – Kamehameha II

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Liholiho was born circa 1797 in Hilo, on the island of Hawaiʻi, the eldest son of Kamehameha I and his highest-ranking consort Queen Keō...