Royal Regalia
These Hawaiian Feather cloaks were the designated dress of chiefs and royalty.
What is Ahu ula?
This term refers to the spiritual power found in people and objects.
What is Mana?
This is referred to as " The Art of Kakau."
What is Tattooing
These carved wooden clubs were often made to cater to the size of the owner and were the main weapons of the warrior class.
What are U'u?
This British Captain arrived in 1778, leading to an influx of Westerners and diseases.
Who is Captain James Cook?
Captain James Cook compared the quality and feel of the feather cloaks to this fine European fabric.
What is Velvet?
This system of rules that regular interactions with the divine to keep chaos at bay.
What is the Kapu (or Tapu) system?
A shaoe in Hawaiian tattooing that is made of a series of triangles.
What is the Shark tooth pattern?
In 1790, King Kamehameha I built a temple to this specific God of War to help unify the islands.
Who is Kukailimoku?
By 1832, the native population had dwindled to this number due to Western diseases.
What is 130,000?
While working these specialists/priests would chant the wearer's genealogy as a way of imbuing mana into the cloak
Who are the Kahuna?
In Hawaiian duality, this realm is associated with the sky, day, light, and the human world.
What is Ao?
Tattoos were often seen as a spiritual type of protection, acting as a barrier for the wearer.
What is Spiritual Armor?
This is the Hawaiian term for a religious temple or structure.
What is a Heiau?
These religious groups arrived in 1820, leading to the eventual banning of the kapu system.
Who are Missionaries?
This king wore an all yellow cloak to show his high status
Who is King Kamehameha I?
This realm of darkness and the divine is where all life is created, but it is also the realm of death.
What is Po?
Scholars believe that reciting these during the tattooing process became captured in the skin as it healed.
What are Chants?
Before metal was introduced, artists used this tool to carve the dense toa wood of the clubs.
What is an Adze?
It is believed that the first Polynesian voyagers to Hawaii came from these islands 1,500 years ago.
What are the Marquesas Islands?
To create the plush texture of the cloaks, thousands of feathers from these 2 types of birds were used.
What are the Honey Eater and I'iwi?
This specific physical act is what fully transitioned a child from the realm of Po into Ao.
What is cutting the Piko (umbilical cord)?
This Queen translated the Kumulipo (Creation Chant) while under house arrest at Iolani Palace.
Who is Queen Liliuokalani?
These items were used by artists to cut details into the wood of the clubs.
What are sharks' teeth?
These two European nations fought for control over Hawaii’s resources and state religion in the 1800s.
Who are the French and British?