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Probably that grand displa}^ of royalty has never been surpassed on these 

 islands. The charming young queen died in a distant land two years later and left 

 no children. Kalanimoku died February 8, 1827, and Naihe died in 183 1. While 

 3'oung Hawaiians of good form still survive, not one could clothe himself onlj' in his 

 dignit}' and his malo in such a pageant. The ver3' kahilis have shrunk into overgrown 



fly-brushes. If the sculptor could have seen those 

 two splendid chiefs we should have had no such 

 commonplace figure of the great Kamehameha as 

 that decked with "barbaric gold" standing before 

 the Judiciary- Building in Honolulu.^'' 



FIG. 113. HOLOKU AND MALO. lgo8. 



FIG. 112. HAWAIIANS DRESSED IN HOLOKU. 1864. 



People who are familiar with the mod- 

 ern dress of the Hawaiian women (worn also 

 for comfort hy some of the white women as 

 well), should know that there is nothing 

 about the "Mother Hubbard" garment called 

 Iiolokii connedling it with the indigenous apparel of the women. It is generall}' 

 understood by those who have studied the matter that the pattern was given to the 

 natives b}^ the early American missionaries, and its form was largely in consideration 

 of the stru6lure of the enormous female alii, as well as for facility of manufadlure. 



°*Mr. Gould lamented to me that he had no living model before him as he tried to give life and grace to flat 

 photographs that had nothing kingly about them. One of the greatest physical evils the foreigner has brought to 

 Hawaii is clothing of the type dwellers in New England were used to wear. As they brought their houses quite 

 unsuited to the climate, so they brought their garb, and as a legitimate consequence, the Hawaiians are dying of 

 consumption in greater numbers than from any other disease. 



