King Kamehameha statue
This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Old.’ See more offerings here.
This is the original statue of Kamehameha 1, the king who first united the Hawaiian Islands. The statue was commissioned in 1878, but was lost off the Falkland Islands. A new statue was made, but in the meantime, the original one was salvaged. The new statue was put up in Honolulu and the original shipped to Kapaau.
Not long after I took this photo, the trees in the background were badly damaged during a windstorm and had to be cut down, so this scene looks quite different today.
Find more information about the statue here. For more information about King Kamehameha’s history, go to nps.gov/puhe/learn/historyculture/kamehameha.htm.
How wonderful that the original statue was found. The new one looks very new, but I’m guessing that’s because of its beautiful bright colours and that it’s looked after very well?
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It is looked after well these days. The story behind that is in a previous post, the first link in the last paragraph or here at https://grahamsisland.com/2018/06/17/king-kamehameha-statues/. Like the locals, I prefer the painted version to the gold gilt one.
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