►Young Kalawainui Becomes Kaluhikai

Hawaii Star Bulletin
June 26, 1953
Clarice B. Taylor's Tales About Hawaii

The Young Kalawainui Becomes Kaluhikai

Hidden Alii, No. 11

     Moopu'u II lingered at Kaluanui on Windward Oahu long enough to collect a boatload of taxes with which he returned to Hawaii, thus making his trip look natural.

     During his stay on Oahu, he did not explain to his uncle about the temple incident. He casually said Kalawainui would like to stay on Oahu until the next tax collecting trip.

     So Moopu'u II returned to Hawaii alone. Months later he came back to Oahu with two canoes. One he loaded with tax goods, the other left Windward Oahu with two in it, himself and Kalawainui. 

     As the two canoes rounded Koko Head they parted company. The canoe loaded with tax goods sailed straight for Hawaii, the other coasted along the Oahu shoreline to Waianae.

     At Waianae the young Kalawainui stepped ashore to start a new and strange life as a fisherman. Moopu'u II paddled away without looking back.

THE FISHERMAN

     Kalawainui carried fishing equipment and a bundle wrapped in ti leaves to hide its beautiful tapa covering. When he met other fishermen, he answered their first question by saying his name was Kaluhikai (Tired and Weary). He said he came from over the Waianae mountains.

     Since it was impolite for a Hawaiian to ask too many questions, the Waianae people did not press Kaluhikai for further information about his family. They took it for granted that he did not know his geneology.

     Kaluhikai had no trouble making himself and home, for Hawaiian custom decreed hospitable treatment for all strangers.

     Time went by and Kaluhikai took a wife, the daughter of a Waianae fisherman, and the couple had four children.

HUMBLE FAMILY

     Kalehua, the wife, thought nothing strange about her husband and showed no curiosity when he hid a tapa covered bundle in their house and cautioned her never to open the bundle. She thought it probably an old family fishing god.

     And so Kaluhikai grew old and died when his four children were still young. Kalehua lived on the learn the true identity of her husband one day in 1870 when Queen Emma came to call and asked to see the hidden bundle.

     The four children were given family names when they came to the wards of Queen Emma. The family surname became Kaho'alii and the children received Christian given names as well as Hawaiian names.

     The oldest girl was Maud Niaupio Kaho'alii. She died while attending the Priory. The second girl, Fanny Malulani Kaho'alii married Abraham St. Chad Piianaia and had a family.

     The brothers were Alexander Kaho'alii and Ilihia Kaho'alii. Alexander died young and Ilihia became a teacher at the old Royal School. He, too, died without children, so Fanny's children were the only descendants of the Hidden Alii.

Next: Piianaia Family, Queen's Relatives.

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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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► Queen Emma Hunts for Hidden Alii

Honolulu Star Bulletin. June 19, 1953 - Tales About Hawaii, Clarice B. Taylor 

QUEEN EMMA HUNTS
FOR HIDDEN ALII

HIDDEN ALII, No. 4

     It was a sunny day in the 1870s when Queen Emma and her mother The High Chiefess Kekala set out on their journey to Waianae, Oahu in search of the lost relatives of the Hidden Alii.

     They had no trouble locating the widow Kalehua when they arrived at Waianae. They found her living in a humble grass house with two children running about, a boy and a girl.

     The woman was flustered when she discovered that her callers were the gracious Queen Emma and her mother. She had only seen them at a distance before.

HUMBLE FISHERMAN

     She said "Yes" her name was Kalehua, but when the Queen asked if her husband was Kalawainui, the woman looked dismayed and said she had never heard of such a man. Her husband's name was Kaluhikai (Tired and Weary), a humble fisherman not a "Big Fisherman."

     The baffled Queen looked at the lovely young girl and the handsome boy in dismay. She asked many questions but could get no further information about the husband from Kalehua.

     The dejected Queen and her mother left Waianae and returned to Honolulu where they hastily summoned Kauhai and upbraided him for giving them information which led to a dreary trip for nothing.

     Kauhai assured the Queen she was on the right track, but he told her she would never discover the hidden alii by asking for him by his correct name. She must learn his assumed name and then ask for him.

     Queen Emma made a second trip to Waianae. This time she took Kauhai with her.

BUNDLED SECRET

     When the group reached the home of Kalehua, Kauhai did not stop to ask questions about the husband. He said to the woman, "Where is the bundle your husband left with you and told you never to open?"

     Immediately Kalehua ran to an inner room and came back with a bundle wrapped in beautiful tapa. She laid the bundle at the Queen's feet without opening it.

     Queen Emma's hands trembled as she opened the bundle. In it, she found a feather shoulder cape worked with a design used only by members of her family and a girdle of red feathers.

     Kalehua stared. She had never seen the contents of that bundle and she told Kauhia that her husband had never told her his true name or that he was an alii.

Next: Queen gains a family

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