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Keepers Of The Culture, A Study In Time Of The Hawaiian Islands August 18, 2008

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Historical Collections of Hawai'i
Keepers of the Culture
A Study in Time, of the Hawai'ian Islands
Inportant People -- Part 23.
by Darlene E. Kelley

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Part 23.

Inportant People.

KEEAUMOKU II 
[ Governor Cox ]
( ? -1823 )

Kahekili Keeaumoku was a son of Keeaumoku and Namahana and a brother of
Kuakini ( John Adams ) and Kaahumanu, who died on Kaua'i. He was
governor of the island of Mau'i for many years. Like his brother
Kuakini, he learned English and joined foreigners in arious enterprises,
such as gathering sandelwood.

' Iliah, the Hawai'ian name for the sandelwood tree, means " fiery
surface" and refers to the tree's reddish blooms and new leaves. The
trees may be up to 65 feet tall, with small leathery, elliptical shaped
leaves that are about 4 inches long with a glossy surface. It also
produces small purple fruits, and the flowers may be green, yellow, pale
red, or magenta, growing in clusters that are peasantly scented and
sometimes used in lei.

Ancient Hawai'ians had many uses for the tree, including placing its
powdered heartwood between layers of kapa 
(tapa) barkcloth to impart the sweet fragrance to the cloth. A mixture
added to kapa dyes was made by adding to the 'iliahi to the oil of nui (
coconut palm ) heated wit hot stones. Sandlewood also had various
medicinal uses in ancient Hawai'i, including as part of a treatment to
sooth the pains of aching joints. This fragrant wood was and could be
sold for a high price in Canton, China where they valued the close
grained, fine smelling wood for making fine furniture, boxes, chests and
carvings, as well as perfume and incense. The older wood were most
valued due their increased fragrance that increased with age. The ukeke,
a musical instrument composed of a wooded bow with strings that were
strumed while the players mouth was used as aresonance chamber, which
produced a speechlike sound though no noise was made by the player's
vocal cords, contained sandalwood. The ukeke was the only stringed
instrument in ancient Hawai'i.
Profits from sandalwood sales pleased King Kamehameha, where chefs
forced the maka'ainana ( commoners ) to climb high in the mountains to
cut down tall trees. Carrying the wood down was hard work, and intensive
harvesting occurred at the expense of the taro patches and other
traditional agricultural food production  
and cultural practices.   

Keeaumoku proposed the abolition of the old religion even before the
breaking of the kapu in 1819. His hand pulled the lever of the press on
the ocassion of the first printing in the islands.

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KEKAULIKE
( ? - 1736 )

A ruler in Mau'i, he was fond of warfare and although related to
Alapainui, invaded Kohola and died of epilepsy on his return. Even
though he had many children, including Kalola, Kahekili, and Namahana.
he decreed that his lands should go to Kamehameha I.

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MIRIAM AUHEA KEKAULUOHI
( 1794 -1845 )

Miriam was a daughter of Hoapili and Kalakua and a sister of Queen
Kamamalu and Kinua. Brought up by her grandparents, Keeaumoku and
Namahana, in 1809, she became one of the wives of Kamehameha I and at
his death became a wife of Kamehameha II.
She married Kanaina in 1834 and bore a male child, the future King
Lunalilo.

Mariam was a stern chiefess but, according to Rev. Amos Starr Cooke, an
over indulgent mother. She loyally supported the Royal School of the
Protestant missionaries but was equally tolerant of other faiths. She
succeeded Kinau as kuhina nui from 1839 to 1845.

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KEKAUONOHI 
( 1805? - 1851 )

A daughter of Kinau and granddaughter of Kamehameha I, Kelauonohi was
one of the wives of Kamehameha II, but after his death, she ran awy with
a chief named Keliiahonui. Later she married Levi Haalelea, who
inherited he lands. She was governor of the island of Kaua'i in 1842.

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JAMES HUNNEWELL KEKELAOKALANI
KEKELA.
(1824 -1904)

First ordained Protestant minister of Hawai'ian blood, Kekela preached
at Kahuku and Hauula on O'ahu before going to the Marquesas Islands when
Hawai'i became a " home mission." In 1853, he and his wife Naomi first
went to Fatuhiva. The people were cannibals who carried on perpetual
tribal warfare, but missionaries were given tabu status. The Kekelas
were, however, forced to leave the island of Hivaoa in 1864. The first
officer of the whale ship Congress, Francis Whalon, was the victim of
the local chief's vengeance for the loss of a son. Whalon was bound and
tortured and would have been eaten as a warning to others, but Kekela
bargained for the captive's life.For this brave act, Kekela was rewarded
by the gift of a inscrbed gold watch by Abraham Lincoln in the final
year of the American president's life. Thereafter the Kekelas worked on
the island of Puamau, running a school for boys, until 1899, when they
returned to Hawai'i after forty seven years in the mission field.

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MOSES KEKUAIWA
(1829 - 1848 )

A son of Kinau and Kekuanaoa, Moses was the brother of Kamehameha IV and
Kamehameha V. He was adopted by Kaikioewa of kaua'i.

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MATAIO KEKUANAOA
( 1794 -1864 )

Mataio was descended on his father's side from chiefs of O'ahu and on
his mother's side from a family of tutors who attended Kamehameha I. He
was of punahele or intimate companion of the future Kamehameha II, and
attended him on the journey to London in 1823. On his return, Kekuanaoa
married in 1827, Kinau, daughter of Kamehameha I, who after 1832, was
kuhina nui and governor of O'ahu. The pair had five children;
Kamehameha, who died early; Moses Kekuaiwa, who died in 1848; Lot
Kamehameha, who became Kamehameha V; Alexander Liholiho, who became
Kamehameha IV; and Victoria Kamamalu. By an earlier marriage to Pauahi,
formally a queen of Kamehameha I, he was also the father of Ruth
Keelikolani.

At the death of Kinau in 1839, Kekuanaoa became governor of O'ahu. He
was a member of the House of Nobles and the Privy Council and president
of the Board of Education. Mark Twain, who obsered Kekuanaoa presiding
over the Legislative Assembly in 1866, said; " He bears himself with a
calm, stately dignity, and is a man of noble presence .....a grave,
dignified, statesman personage, and as seemingly natural and fitted to
the place as if he had been born to it and had never been out of it in
his lifetime."

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KEKUOKALANI
( ? -1819 )

Born at Kona, son of Keliimaikai, Kekuokalani was a cousin of Kamehameha
II. At the death of Kamehameha I in 1819, the chief became
keeper of the war god Kukailimoku. Angered at the breaking of the
ancient kapu, he retired to Kaawaloa on Hawai'i and raised an rebellion
against Liholiho.
Two precedents of history justified this act
 the overthrow of Hakau by Umi and the defeat of Kiwalao by Kamehameha
I. The prededent failed when Kekuaokalani faced the army of Kalanimoku,
reinforced by American swivel guns mounted on double canoes. The chief
and his wife, Manono, fought bravely but were killed inthe battle of
Kuamoo in December, 1819.

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KEKUHAUPIO
( ? -1784 )

This chief was a noted fighter who tutored Kamehamheha I inthe arts of
war and defense, and was one of his foremost supporters. On one
ocassion, his pupil repaid him by saving his life in battle. Kekuhaupio
was at Kealakekua Bay on the day of the death of Captain James Cook and
brought to Kalaniopuu the critical news that a chief named Kalimu had
been killed by the cordon of boats across the bay. Kekuhaupio lost his
life during a sham battle at Napoopoo/

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KEKUIAPOIWA LILIHA

Daughter of Kaloa and a niece of Kahekili, she was the wife of
Keouakalani Kupuapaikalaniui and Mother of Kamehameha I.

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KEKUPUOHI

A wife of Kalaniopuu, she was a great beauty of the time and later
married Kaiana. She was one of the first chiefess to learn from the
missionaries to read and write.

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KELIIMAIKAI
( ? -1809 )

The favorite younger brother of Kamehameha, he was given the name of the
" good chief " because o his fair treatment of the common people as
ruler of Mau'i/

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 ROSALIE A. KELIINOI
( 1875 -1952 )

The first woman elected to public office in the Territory of Hawai'i.
Rosalie Keliinoi was born at Wailuku, Mau'i.She took office in 1925, and
was instrumental inenacting a bill to give women full right, witout the
consent of their hsbands, to dispose of property owned at the time of
their marriage. She was a member of various Hawai'ian civic groups. Of
her seven sons, three served on government boards. Her favorite hobby in
later years
was making Hawai'ian quilts, whch she entered in competitions at the
Honoulu Academy of Arts.

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ARTHUR RIPONT KELLER
(1882-1961 )

Bornin Buffalo, New York, Keller obtained degrees at Cornell National
University Law School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the
Harvard University. After experience on the mainland as a civil
engineer, he came to Hawai'i in 1909 as professor at the College of
Hawai'i. He retired as Vice President of the University
of Hawai'i in 1946. During World War I, he served on te mainland and
retired with the rank of Major in the United States Army Reserve. Keller
devoted time to civic affairs and served on several territorial
committees. He married Lora T. Keegan in 1908.

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JOHN MELVILLE KELLY
( 1879 -1962 )

Born in Oakland, California, son of a rancher, Kelly had his first
drawing published at the age of seventeen, and at the age of twenty
attended Partington Art School in San Francisco. In 1908, he married
Katherine Howland, who later won recognition as a sculptor. Kelly worked
for Charles R. Frazier in Honolulu in 1923 and was art director of the
Star Bulletin fron 1927 to 1935. Thereafter, he spent all his time as an
etcher, first with Hawai'ian subjects and later with Oriental. His work
was displayed at galleries in Hawai'i and on the Mainland.

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