Kaakaualani of Maui

Kaakaualani of Maui, a Hawaiian High Chief of Maui, was the mother of Mopua, the district king or chieftain of Hāna and grandmother of Kalahumoku II. She is referred to as Kaakaualaninui or Kaakaualani the Great by her descendant, Elizabeth Kekaaniau Pratt. [Pratt. p. 10] Although the suffix "Nui" translates as "Great" or "the Great", it much more used than Western epiphet for Great rulers, with Kamehameha I being the only Hawaiian holder. Her descendant, Elizabeth Kaakaualani Wilcox, is her namesake.

Kaakaualaninui married the Kauhiokalani, son of the High Chief Kaneikapookapuoluna and Princess Kuhala of Maui. [http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/a/h/y/Thomas-Eugene-imakakoloaihe-Ah-yee/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0401.html] Through this union, she gave birth to two children. The elder was a son, the High Chief Mopua [http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/a/h/y/Thomas-Eugene-imakakoloaihe-Ah-yee/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0403.html] of Hāna, and the younger was a daughter, the High Chiefess Nalanipipio. [http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/a/h/y/Thomas-Eugene-imakakoloaihe-Ah-yee/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0404.html] There are no descendants of Nalanipipio because she probably died childless, but Mopua's descendant's survive through the House of Laanui.

The High Chiefess Kaakaualaninui's descent is not mentioned or is unknown. Her family could have been of Mauian descent, having sprouted from an older cadet branch of the Royal House of Maui. But there are possibilities that her family was Molokaian since, in Abraham Fornander's "An Account of the Polynesian Race", Kaakaualani's son was mentioned as Mopua of Molokai. [Fornander. p. 216] Mopua's father's descent through his mother was definitely Mauian being the grandson of the Moi of Maui, so that left the Molokaian descent to either Kaakaualani's family or maybe Kaneikapookapuoluna's family.

The only solid fact known about that family was that they were the original holder of the "Ka Poo Hoolewa I Ka La". This was a kapu and what a "wonderful kapu" entirely different from, and never known to exist among, any of the other aristocratic families of the Hawaiian Islands. Its origin is as shrouded as the lineage of Kaakaualani. Style It required the positioning of the kapu holder's head toward the sun's place in the heaven from its rising unto its setting. Days for the observance of this tabu were strictly kept. The only time for recreation during the tabu must be taken from between the setting of the luminary and the dawn of a new day. The kapu was inherited by Kaakaualaninui and passed down the generations through her son; although the practice of this kapu within the family ceased somewhere after the death of Kalokuokamaile or his daughter, Kaohelelani, the last pagan descendants. [Pratt. p. 10-11]

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References

*Citation
last1 = Fornander | first1 = Abraham
last2 = Stokes | first2 = John F. G.
title = [http://books.google.com/books?id=tcQNAAAAQAAJ&ie=ISO-8859-1 An Account of the Polynesian Race]
publisher = Trubner & co.
year = 1880
isbn = .
*Citation
last1 = Pratt | first1 = Elizabeth K.
title = [http://books.google.com/books?id=K-O5nPqJVKEC&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html_text An Account of the Polynesian Race]
publisher = T. H.
year = 1920
isbn = .

External Link

* [http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/a/h/y/Thomas-Eugene-imakakoloaihe-Ah-yee/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0402.html Kaakaualani Geneology]