► 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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► Daughter of Hidden Alii

Honolulu Star Bulletin. June 18, 1953 - Tales About Hawaii, Clarice B. Taylor 

MALULANI KAMAIKUI,
DAUGHTER OF HIDDEN ALII

HIDDEN ALII, No. 3

     When Abraham St. Chad Piianaia returned from England and began teaching at Iolani School, he became acquainted with a lovely Hawaiian girl attending St. Andrews Priory as a ward of Queen Emma.

     Fanny Malulani (Soft Breeze of the Tradewind) Kamaikui spent her time away from school at the home of Queen Emma. It was there that Abraham St. Chad Piianaia courted her and made her his wife.

     Mr. Piianaia would never have known the girl had it not been that she was a close relative of the Queen's and the daughter of the true "Hidden Alii."

     Her father's life had been most dramatic and if the Queen had not taken an interest in discovering his whereabouts, Fanny Malulani would probably have grown up in Waianae as an unknown fisherman's daughter who did not know her father's true family name was Kamaikui.

A LOST UNCLE

     Queen Emma was very kind to all her relatives and the Hawaiians who had served in her families. But she yearned to help the nearest relative of all, an uncle who was lost to his family as a young man and hidden away to save his life.

     The Queen had heard the story many times from her mother Kekelaokalani. She knew the uncle might still be living in some out of the way place or that he might have a family.

     The trouble was that Kekoa(?) did not know the real or assumed name of this uncle, so the woman felt helpless when they decided to begin the hunt to locate him.

THE BIG FISHERMAN

     They did the logical thing. They sent for a relative living in Nuuani (spelled/typed exact, perhaps "Nuuanu") Valley and asked him if the story of the hidden alii had ever been told by his father Moopu 2nd, the man who had hidden the young alii.

     This relative Kauhaipu-o keku Haupio-ike-kanaka (spelled/typed exact from excerpt) said "Yes." His father told him in confidence of the hiding and had told him the true name of the hidden alii. The name, Kahaipu said was Kalawainui (The Big Fisherman) and the place was Waianae, Oahu.

     Kauhaipu said they would find Kalawainui dead but that his widow, Kalehua, was living at Waianae with the children.

     Queen Emma and her mother Kekela triumphantly set out for Waianae to find Kalehua and her children. It was a lond trip in those days because it had to be made with horse and buggy.

Next: Quest for Hidden Alii 

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