page_title: Pākī
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Pākī / Family
caption_attribution_description: English: Bernice Pauahi Bishop's residence at Haleʻākala build by her father Abner Paki. The figure show seated on the lower veranda is Charles Reed Bishop.
context_page_description: Abner Kuhoʻoheiheipahu Pākī was a Hawaiian high chief during the reign of King Kamehameha III, the father of Bernice Pauahi Bishop, founder of Kamehameha Schools.
context_section_description: With Kōnia he had a daughter, Bernice Pauahi Pākī. She was hānai (adopted) at birth to the Premier Kīnaʻu. Hānai was a tradition of giving up ones child, practiced by the Hawaiian chiefs and commoners alike, to a close relative or friend. It was to strengthen family ties (ohana). The missionaries condemned hānai as immoral and wrong, stating that you should not give up your child like puppies.  He and his wife arranged a marriage between her daughter and Kinau's and Kekūanāoʻa's son, Prince Lot.
  His daughter opposed her parent's decision. She wished to marry for love and said there was no love between her and Lot besides the love of a brother toward his sister. He, his wife, and Governor Kekuanaoa told Bernice it was her duty as a high chiefess to marry a high chief of rank. His daughter later married Charles Reed Bishop, an American. He never attended his daughter's wedding at the Royal School. 
  Bernice and her parents later reconciled at the constant urging of the twelve-year-old Princess Victoria Kamāmalu.
  He and Kōnia had a hānai daughter, Lydia Pākī. Their foster daughter was the natural daughter of Keohokalole and Kapaakea. Lydia grew up on Pākī's residence in Honolulu, on King Street. The house was called Haleʻākala, sometimes translated as House of the Sun (Haleakalā), but probably meant Pink House after the coral rock that the house was constructed of.  The house was originally called ʻAikupika (Egypt). Later it became the Arlington Hotel.
  The two-story coral house was built by Pākī himself, from the original grass hut complex of the same name at the same site, financed by the sale of Mākaha Valley and would later become one of the primary residence of his daughter Bernice Pauahi and her husband.
caption: Haleʻākala
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