Death Rites and Hawaiian Royalty

Funerary Practices in the Kamehameha and Kalakaua Dynasties, 1819-1953

Ralph Thomas Kam (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

252 Seiten

2017
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-6846-8 (ISBN)

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Missionary journals, government publications, and articles in Hawaiian and English language newspapers provide the source material for this first comprehensive look at the transformation of funerary practices following permanent contact with the West. The documentary evidence tells the story of the adoption of new ways of honouring Hawaii royalty and the persistence of traditional practices.

The bones of Hawaii's King Kamehameha the Great were hidden at night in a secret location. In contrast, his successor Kamehameha III had a half-mile-long funeral procession to the Royal Tomb watched by thousands. Drawing on missionary journals, government publications and Hawaiian and English language newspapers, this book describes changes in funerary practices for Hawaiian royalty and details the observance of each royal death beginning with that of Kamehameha in 1819.

Funeral observances of Western royalty provided an extravagant model for their Hawaiian counterparts yet many indigenous practices endured. Mourners no longer knocked out their teeth or tattooed their tongues but mass wailing, feather standards and funeral dirges continued well into the 20th century. Dozens of historic drawings and photographs provide rare glimpses of the obsequies of the Kamehameha and Kalakaua dynasties. Descriptions of the burial sites provide locations of the final resting places of Hawaii's royalty.

The late Ralph Thomas Kam was the author of several articles in the Hawaiian Journal of History. He lived in Kaneohe, Hawai‘i.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

Death of Kamehameha the Great

Death of Likelike and Traditional Hawaii Mourning Practices

An Early Model

Lying in State

Funerals

Processions

Royal Deaths After the Overthrow

1. Royal Deaths

Royal Deaths During the Kamehameha Dynasty

Kamehameha the Great (1819) 17; Kauwai (1823) 18; Keōpūolani (1823) 21; George Cox Ke‘eaumoku (1824) 25; Kaumuali‘i (1824) 28; Kamehameha II and Kamāmalu (1824) 31; Kalanimoku (1827) 36; Nāmāhana (1829) 36; Kamanele (1831) 38; Keaweawe‘ulaokalani I (1832) 38; Queen Ka‘ahumanu, Kuhina Nui (1832) 38; David Kamehameha (1835) 40; John Young (1835) 41; Nāhi‘ena‘ena (1837) 41; Kīna‘u (1839) 44; Kuini Liliha (1839) 46; Hoapili (1840) 47; Chiefess Kapi‘olani (1841) 47; Keaweawe‘ulaokalani II (1842) 48; Hoapili Wahine (1842) 48; Ha‘alilio (1845) 48; Kekāuluohi (1845) 50; William Pitt Leleiohoku, Ka‘imina‘auao and Moses Kekuaiwa (1848) 51; Keali‘iahonui (1849) 53; Ka‘ōana‘eha (1850) 55; Kekau‘ōnohi (1851) 55; James Young Kanehoa (1851) 56; James Kaliokalani (1852) and Polly Pa‘a‘āina (1853) 57; Kamehameha III (1854) 58; Abner Pākī (1855) 63; Kōnia (1857) 64; Keoni Ana (1857) 65; Joshua Kaeo (1858) 66; Thomas Charles Byde Rooke (1858) 66; John William Pitt Kīna‘u (1859) 68; Bennet Nāmākēhā (1860) 69; Abigail Maheha (1861) 70; Jane Lahilahi Young (1862) 72; Prince of Hawai‘i (1862) 72; Keolaokalani Pākī Bishop (1863) 74; King Kamehameha IV (1863) 74; Robert Crichton Wyllie (1865) 79; Princess Victoria Kamāmalu (1866) 80; Grace Kama‘iku‘i (1866) 82; Kaisara (Caesar) Kapa‘akea (1866) 83; Mataio Kekūanāo‘a, Kuhina Nui (1868) 85; High Chiefess Keohokālole (1869) 87; Queen Kalama (1870) 88; Kamehameha V (1872) 92; Jane Loeau (1873) 94; King William Charles Lunalilo (1874)

Royal Deaths During the Kalākaua Dynasty 98 Charles Kana‘ina (1877) 99; William Pitt Leleiohoku Kalahoolewa (1877) 100; Fanny Kekelaokalani Young (1880) 103; Peter Young Kaeo (1880) 104; Ruth Keanolani Kanahoahoa Ke‘elikōlani (1883) 106; Princess Victoria Kūhiō Kinoiki Kekaulike (1884) 111; Bernice Pauahi Bishop (1884) 112; Queen Emma (1885) 115; Princess Miriam Likelike (1887) 121; Prince Edward Abel Keliiahonui (1887) 126; King

David Kalākaua (1891) 127; John Owen Dominis (1891)

Royal Deaths During the Provisional Government and the Republic of Hawaii 138 Virginia Kapooloku Po‘omaikelani (1895) 138; Ka‘iulani (1899) 139; Queen Kapi‘olani (1899)

Royal Deaths During the Territory of Hawaii 146 Albert Kūnuiākea (1903) 147; Robert W. Wilcox (1903) 150; Mary Kūnuiākea (1904) 152; David Kawānanakoa (1908) 152; Archibald Scott Cleghorn (1910) 156; Charles Reed Bishop (1915) 157; Lili‘uokalani (1917) 158; Jonah Kūhiō Kalaniana‘ole (1922) 166; Elizabeth Keka‘aniau (1928) 170; Elizabeth Kahanu (1932) 171; Abigail Wahi‘ika‘ahu‘ula Campbell (1945) 172; David Kalākaua Kawānanakoa (1953)

2. Burial Places

Fort Tomb

Tomb near Halekamani

Moku‘ula Tomb

Royal Tomb at Pohukaina, Honolulu (1825)

Mauna ‘Ala, Royal Mausoleum at Kawānanakoa, Nu‘uanu, Honolulu 184 John Young Tomb 187; Kamehameha Tomb (1887) 187;

Wyllie Tomb (1904) 190; Kalakaua Crypt (1910) 192; Kawānakoa Tomb at Mauna ‘Ala 198; Lunalilo Mausoleum (1875)

3. Undertakers

Conclusion

Glossary

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	12.08.2017
Zusatzinfo	73 photos, glossary, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	322 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	1-4766-6846-9 / 1476668469
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-6846-8 / 9781476668468
Zustand	Neuware