Death Rites And Hawaiian Royalty Funerary Practices In The Kamehameha And Kalkaua Dynasties 18191953 Kam by Kam, Ralph Thomas 9781476628615, 9781476668468, 1476628610, 1476668469 instant download after payment.

From the hiding of the bones of Kamehameha the Great, to the
half-mile-long funeral procession of King Kamehameha III, to the somber
return of the embalmed remains of King Kalākaua from San Francisco,
Hawaii experienced changing responses to the deaths of Hawaiian royalty.
Missionary journals, government publications, and articles in Hawaiian
and English language newspapers provide the source material for the
first comprehensive look at the transformation of funerary practices
following permanent contact with the West. The documentary evidence
tells the story of the adoption of new ways of honoring Hawaii royalty
and the persistence of traditional practices. Although the funeral
observances for British royalty provided an extravagant model for their
Hawaii counterparts, indigenous practices survived. While mourners no
longer knocked out their teeth or tattooed their tongues, other
traditional forms―the mass wailing, feather standards, and composing of
funeral dirges―continued well into the twentieth century. Besides the
contemporaneous accounts, dozens of historic drawings and photographs
provide rarely seen glimpses of the obsequies of the Kamehameha and
Kalākaua dynasties. Burial locations, too, saw transformation as secret
burial caves and thatched structures housing ancient bones gave way to
coral sepulchers, Gothic mausoleums and underground crypts. The
description of the burial sites includes the locations of the final
resting places of the royalty of Hawaii.