Wooing of Umia and Piikea

Pacific Island Photography Collection
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Wooing of Umia and Piikea

Kingdom of Hawai'i (annexed by United States), O'ahu, Honolulu, Waikiki Beach, Hawaiian, 1914
Photographs
Gelatin silver print
Primary support: 4 × 6 in. (10.16 × 15.24 cm)
Partial gift of Mark and Carolyn Blackburn and purchased with funds from LACMA's 50th Anniversary Gala and FIJI Water (M.2015.33.1276)
Art of the Pacific
Not currently on public view

Curator Notes

This could be a reinactment of the courtship between Pi'ikea Lani o Maui (of Maui), the royal daughter of great Pi'ilani of Maui and her first husband, ʻUmi-a-Līloa, King of Hawai'i (ulukau.org).