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Hawaiian feather helmets, known as mahiole in the Hawaiian language, [2] were worn with feather cloaks (ʻahu ʻula). These were symbols of the highest rank reserved for the men of the aliʻi, [3] the chiefly class of Hawaii. There are examples of this traditional headgear in museums around the world.
These artists all depicted Hawaiian warriors clad in feather capes, some wearing helmet. Another example is "A Man of the Sandwich Islands, with his Helmet" (engraving by John Keyse Sherwin , after Webber's painting, 1778–1784) which has been identified as Kanaʻina ( Kalaimanokahoʻowaha ), who was killed during the altercation.
18th-century Hawaiian helmet and cloak, signs of royalty. Ancient Hawaiʻi was a caste society developed from ancestral Polynesians. In The overthrow of the kapu system in Hawaii, Stephenie Seto Levin describes the main classes: [27] Aliʻi. This class consisted of the high and lesser chiefs of the realms.
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A mythical enemy-incinerating kapa (barkcloth) cape, retold as a feather skirt in one telling, occurs in Hawaiian mythology. In the tradition regarding the hero ʻAukelenuiaʻīkū, [c] the hero's grandmother Moʻoinanea who is matriarch of the divine lizards (moʻo akua, or simply moʻo) gives him her severed tail, which transforms into a cape (or kapa lehu, i.e. tapa) that turns enemies into ...
Early in its history, the Hawaiian Kingdom was governed from coastal towns on the islands of Hawaiʻi and Maui . During the reign of Kamehameha III a capital was established in Honolulu. Kamehameha V decided to build a royal palace fitting the Hawaiian Kingdom's new-found prosperity and standing with the royals of other nations.
Oct. 23—A former star University of Hawaii linebacker and high school football coach will plead guilty to federal drug charges for his alleged role in a methamphetamine trafficking ring that ...
This makes the pressed fiber sun helmet one of the longest used helmets in service by the United States military. [52] Throughout World War II, International Hat was one of two major government contracted manufacturers of the pressed fiber sun helmets for US military personnel. [53] [52] Hawley Products Company was the other major government ...