Kalolaa-kumukoa

For the wife of Kalaniʻōpuʻu, see Kalola.

Kalola-a-Kumukoa,[1][2][3][4] also known simply as Kalola, was the first wife of Kamehameha I. She was a high chiefess (Alii) of Hawaii.

Family

Her father was Kumukoa (Kumu-ko'a-a-Keawe, also called Kumuhea),[5] a son of Keaweʻīkekahialiʻiokamoku.[6] Both Keawe and Kumukoa were among the remains moved from the Royal tomb to the Royal Mausoleum in the Nuuanu Valley.[7]

She was first wife of the king Kamehameha I before the Battle of Mokuʻōhai.[1] The couple lived with Kamehameha's brother in Hilo along with the god Kū, who Kamehameha had possession of, given by his uncle Kalaniʻōpuʻu.[8][9]

References

  1. 1 2 Mookini, Esther T. (1998). "Keopuolani: Sacred Wife, Queen Mother, 1778-1823". Hawaiian Journal of History (Honolulu: Hawaiian Historical Society) 32: 10. hdl:10524/569.
  2. ↑ McKinzie, Edith Kawelohea (1986). Stagner, Ishmael W., ed. Hawaiian Genealogies: Extracted from Hawaiian Language Newspapers 2. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. p. 13. ISBN 0-939154-28-5.
  3. ↑ http://nupepa-hawaii.com/2014/09/03/robert-wilcox-sounds-off-1898/
  4. ↑ http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025121/1898-05-27/ed-1/seq-5/
  5. ↑ Catherine C. Summers (1971). Molokai: A Site Survey. Department of Anthropology, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum. p. 9.
  6. ↑ David Kalakaua (King of Hawaii) (1888). The Legends and Myths of Hawaii: The Fables and Folk-lore of a Strange People. C.L. Webster. p. 440.
  7. ↑ Walter F. Judd (1975). Palaces and Forts of the Hawaiian Kingdom: From Thatch to American Florentine. Pacific Books, Publishers. p. 157. ISBN 978-0-87015-216-0.
  8. ↑ Abraham Fornander (1880). John F. G. Stokes, ed. An Account of the Polynesian Race: Its Origins and Migrations, and the Ancient History of the Hawaiian People to the Times of Kamehameha I. Volume 2. Trübner & Co. p. 203.
  9. ↑ Moke Kupihea (10 May 2005). The Cry of the Huna: The Ancestral Voices of Hawaii. Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. p. 112. ISBN 978-1-59477-642-7.
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