Ancient Hawaii
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Ancient Hawaii is the period of Hawaiian history preceding the establishment in 1795 of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi by Kamehameha the Great. Traditionally, researchers estimated the first settlement of the
Petroglyphs at Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park
Priests traveling across Kealakekua Bay for first contact rituals. Each helmet is a gourd, with foliage and tapa strip decoration. A feather-surrounded akua is in the arms of the priest at the center of the engraving.
Hāpaialiʻi and Keʻeku Heiau
A drawing of a heiau at Waimea, Kauai.
Kamehameha I
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Kamehameha I, also known as Kamehameha the Great, was the conqueror and first ruler of the Kingdom of Hawaii. The state of Hawaii gave a statue of him to the National Statuary Hall Collection in Washi
Ancient Hawaii
…Ancient Hawaii is the period of Hawaiian history preceding the establishment in 1795 of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi by Kamehameha the Great. Traditionally, researchers estimated the first settlement of the Hawaiian islands as having occurred sporadically between 400 and 1100 CE by Polynesian…
Portrait of Kamehameha (c. 1758–1819), King of the Sandwich Islands by Louis Choris, 1816.
This feather sculpture of the god Kūkaʻilimoku was left to Kamehameha I by his uncle Kalaniʻōpuʻu
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King Kamehameha receiving the Russian naval expedition of Otto von Kotzebue. Drawing by Louis Choris in 1816.