Kahakumakalina

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Kahakumakalina was the 14th Alii Aimoku of Kauai. He ruled as titular King or chief of Kauai . He was also known as Kahakumakaliua. He was a sacred chief of Kauai. He was one of the kapu chiefs of Kauai. He was born around 1580.

Legend has it that Kahakumakalina was son of Kalanikukuma, the 13th Alii Aimoku of Kauai and his wife Kapoleikauila. He also had a younger brother Ilihiwalani the Chief of Waimea and the south-western section of the island. He and his brother gave forth to numerous aristrocratic families from Hawaii to Niihau, who in after ages took a special pride in tracing themselves back to the high and pure-blooded kapu chiefs of Kauai.

He was travelling through the group of islands for pleasure and observation, and he arrived at the Hawaiian court of Umi. He charmed with this daughter of Umi, asked and obtained her for wife. Another legend says that Akahiilikapu went visiting the islands, and that having arrived at Kauai, there became the wife of Kahakumakalina. Judging from the intrinsic merits of each legend, It is consider the former as the correct version of the affair. Certain it is that Akahiilikapu accompanied her husband to Kauai and gave birth to two children, a daughter named Koihalauailaua - or popularly, Koihalawai (Akahikameenoa) - and a son named Keliiohiohi. After some time spent of Kauai, and for some reasons which have not been handed down, Akahiilikapu returned to Hawaii with her children, and Kahakumakalina remained on Kauai.

After Akahiilikapu returned to Hawaii, Kahakumakalina took another wife, whose name on the genealogies is Kahakumaia, but whose parentage is not given. With her he had a son Kamakapu, who succeeded him as Alii Aimoku of Kauai.

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Samuel M. Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, Revised Edition, (Honolulu: Kamehameha Schools Press, 1992).
Abraham Fornander, An Account of the Polynesian Race: Its Origin and Migrations, Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1969.