Death Rites and Hawaiian Royalty
Subtitle: Funerary Practices in the Kamehameha and Kalakaua Dynasties, 1819-1953
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781476668468
Subjects: Death; Rites and ceremonies; Hawaii, history
Description: "The bones of Hawaii's King Kamehameha the Great were buried in a secret location. His successor Kamehameha III had a half-mile funeral procession. Drawing on missionary journals, government publications and Hawaiian and English language newspapers, this book describes changes in funerary practices for Hawaiian royalty following continuous contact with the West beginning in the 19th century"--