Ka Hae Kalaunu o Liliʻuokalani | Unisex Tee - creme
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100% Organic Cotton | Unisex tee | Designed in Hawaiʻi nei | Made in the USA
| Kihi Po'ohiwi | Umauma | Uala | Lō'ihi | |
| Unisex Tee | Shoulders | Chest | Bicep | Back Length |
| XS | 18" | 40"-42" | 16"-17" | 25" |
| S | 19" | 42"-44" | 16"-17" | 26" |
| M | 20" | 42"-44" | 16"-17" | 27" |
| L | 21" | 44"-45" | 16"-17" | 28" |
| XL | 21" | 46"-47" | 19"-20" | 29" |
| 2XL | 21" | 48"-49" | 19"-20" | 30" |
| 3XL | 21" | 50"-51" | 21"-22" | 30" |
Models are wearing size xlarge and small shirts.
Ka Hae Kalaunu o Liliʻuokalani
Lydia Liliʻu Loloku Walania Wewehi Kamakaʻeha, Hawaiʻi’s last reigning monarch, was a woman of many talents. A great composer, she wrote the first national anthem He Mele Lāhui Hawaiʻi in 1866. It endured until her brother, King David Kalākaua, wrote Hawaiʻi Ponoʻī in 1876. Liliʻu became heir apparent in 1877 and began traveling. In 1887, she returned from Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee in England to find out her brother had been held at gunpoint by the Hawaiian League and forced to sign a new constitution (that was never ratified by the legislature) and change certain cabinet ministers. This was the beginning of the insurgency and a politically hostile climate. That hostility continued as Ka Mōʻī Wahine Liliʻuokalani ascended to the throne on January 29, 1891 and persisted through the overthrow of her government on January 17, 1893. Liliʻu’s royal standard is a flag that represented her status as Hawaiʻi’s sovereign and it flew at ʻIolani palace next to the Hae Hawaiʻi (our national flag). Within days of the overthrow, Colonel John Harris Soper of the PG ordered the removal of the standard and took possession of it. Two years ago, his family attempted to sell it, but Princess Abigail Kawānanakoa purchased it and had it returned home. Liliʻu was beloved by her people who composed several mele for her immediately after the overthrow. They are powerful testaments of aloha aliʻi (love of chiefs) and aloha ʻāina (patriotism). Many of these mele call on Hawaiʻi’s tradtional gods, asking for their mana in the darkest hour of the queen and her nation.
Ka Hae Kalaunu o Liliʻuokalani
He mau lālani kēia no loko mai o “He Wehi No Liliʻulani.”
Aia ka mele piha ma Ka Leo o ka Lahui, 16 Pepeluali 1893:
Kulia ka pule a ke Kahuna
ʻO Kāne Kanaloa mai luna mai
He noi aloha iā Kihawahine
E maliu mai ʻoe i ka leo ualo
Eia kō liko, kō pulapula
Milimili a Hawaiʻi o Keawe
Kākoʻo mai ʻo Maui o Kama
I ka pono nui o Liliʻuokalani
E ʻike ē ka lani me ka ʻōpua
I ka hana a ka ʻōpū lokoʻino
Palea ʻia ka manaʻo lili
Ka manaʻo haʻakei me ka lokoʻino
Ke ʻī mai nei aʻo Haumea
E ola ʻo Hawaiʻi a mau loa
ʻO Liliʻuokalani nō ka Hoʻoilina
Ke poʻo hoʻi o ka noho Kalaunu
Kūkulu paʻa ʻia kō Mākia
ʻOnipaʻa i ka piko o Kākuhihewa
Haʻina ka inoa ua lanakila
ʻO Liliʻu, ʻo Wewehilani i ke Kapu
Text on shirt:
Ke'ī mai nei a'o Haumea | E ola'o Hawai'i a mau loa!
Haumea declares | Hawai'i shall live forever
