► Living Descendants of The Hidden Alii

Article from: The Honolulu Star Bulletin
Clarice B. Taylor's Tales About Hawaii
July 3, 1953

LIVING DESCENDANTS OF THE HIDDEN ALII

No. 16

     Fanny Malulani Kahoalii who married Abraham St. Chad Piianaia in the 1880s was the ony child of the Hidden Alii. Kalawainui Kaluhikai, who had children to carry on the line.

     He descendants may be recognized by their Hawaiian names, most of them a repition of the old family names.

     Fanny's own Hawaiian name, Malulani, is the name of Queen Emma's kahili now int eh Bishop Museum. The kahili might be recognized by the ivory circles inserted in the long handle.

     Fanny's four children were Grace Kiowai Kamaikui (Mrs. Thomas Tassil of Waimanalo), Maud Niaupio (Mrs. Pali), Gordon Heulumanawaokalani Piianaia of Los Angeles and Stella Kalikookalani (Mrs. Peter Hanohano of 10th Avenue.)

THE CHILDREN

     Of the four, three are living. Maud Niaupio Pali died leaving a son David Hapaki Pali who lives on the old family property in Liliha on Kaluhikai Lane.

     Gordon Piianaia went to the mainland as a young man and established himself as a singer and a performer. His professional name is St. Chad Piianaia. he had to drop the beautiful hawaiian name Heulumana-wa-okalani (the prince whose intelligence grows like a forest), because it is difficult for Mainlanders. Mr. St. Chad Piianaia has the shu (red) hair and the complexion of his Hawaiian ancestors.

TASSIL CHILDREN

     The blood of the Hidden Alii lives on in the children of Grace. Mrs. Thomas Tassil and Stella, Mrs. Peter Hanohano.

     Mrs. Tassil's oldest son is Abraham Piianaia of today. He carries the Piianaia name because his grandfather adopted him at birth. 

     Her other children are Julia, Tommy, Mabel, Charles and Margaret Tassil.

     Mrs. Hanohano had 17 children, all of whom are living. These children have family names given to them by the late Lucy Henriques, who took an interest in them as relatives of Queen Emma.

     Mrs. Hanohano was educated at the Priory on a Queen's scholarship and her youngest daughter, Stella Kahokualakai Hanohano, is now attending the Priory on the same scholarship.

Next: The Hanohano names.

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► Queen Emma Adopts Hidden Family

Honolulu Star Bulletin. June 20, 1953, Tales About Hawaii by Clarice B. Taylor 

QUEEN EMMA ADOPTS
HIDDEN ALII FAMILY

HIDDEN ALII, No. 5

     Before Queen Emma, her mother Kekela and Kauhai left Waianae that wonderful day in the 1870s, they learned all they could of the life of Kaluhikai, the hidden alii, from his widow Kalehua.

     Kalehua told them patiently how Kaluhikai had earned a living by fishing, and how he had loved their two children, the boy Kaluhikai II and the girl Malulani.

     When Queen Emma asked to take the children to Honolulu and put them in school, the widow hesitated and said,

     My husband told me, "If the alii ever come for our children, don't let them go for life with the alii is unsecure. There is too much jealousy among them."

     Queen Emma suggested then that the children be allowed to enter the schools at St. Andrew's Cathedral. She said she was anxious to recompense the children for the hardships their father had known.

     At last Kalehua gave in.

CHANGED NAMES

    The Queen took the little family to town to her own estates and entered the children in the Priory and Iolani. Eventually the boy was christened in the S. Andrew's Cathedral as Alexander Kahoalii and the girl was christened Fanny Malulani Kamaikui. Both Kahoalii and Kamaikui were alii family names which told of the children's high ancestry.

     Queen Emma also took the tapa bundle containing the identfying garments of the hidden alii. Kalehua willingly gave them into her keeping, for she had a guilty conscience about owning them since her husband had forbidden her to open the bundle.

STORY IS TOLD

     Just what became of the feather shoulder cape and the feather sash will never be known. The shoulder cape may be in the Bishop Museum with other possessions of the Queen. There is no garment either in the museum or in Queen Emma's home which answers to the description of the feather sash.

     The sash may have been a girdle of feathers similar to the Malo of Liloa which adorns the statue of Kamehameha. The sash may have been used in installation ceremonies when members of the family became qualified priests. 

     Now that the family of the hidden alii had been found, Kauhai felt free to tell the story of the hiding away as it was told him by his father Moopu'u II who has saved the alii's life when he was a young man and had hidden him at Waianae, Oahu.

     Moopu'u II had told Kauhai the story in confidence. Since Queen Emma and Kekela were of the senior line of the family and therefore his superiors, Kauhai could tell the story without breaking confidence.

Next: Moopu'u II

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