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Death Rites and Hawaiian Royalty

Death Rites and Hawaiian Royalty

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

by Ralph Thomas Kam
Paperback
Publication Date: 30/11/2017

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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.

ISBN:
9781476668468
9781476668468
Category:
History of the Americas
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
30-11-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
228.6x152.4x12.7mm
Weight:
0.32kg

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