Aliʻi Nui offering honi blessing to a young attendee at the United Nations
Diplomatic Record · PKA-DIP-2024-008
Record class
Contemporary Atooi Record
Archive period: Contemporary Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi
Historical Hawaiian Kingdom records document the institutions, laws, diplomacy, and governmental activity of the historical Kingdom. Their inclusion does not by itself establish the authority of any particular contemporary claimant. Contemporary claims of continuity, succession, genealogy, or authority are documented separately.
Historical Hawaiian Kingdom documentation establishes historical facts — that a treaty, statute, decree, or diplomatic relation existed. It does not by itself prove the authority of any particular contemporary claimant. Claims of continuity between the historical Hawaiian Kingdom and the contemporary Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi are made and documented separately, on genealogical, customary, and legal grounds; they are classified as continuity claims and are neither established nor diminished by the historical documents themselves.
Description
The Aliʻi Nui shares a traditional honi (forehead-to-forehead breath of life greeting) with a young attendee in the public concourse of the United Nations Headquarters, New York, during a session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
Evidence & Provenance
- Archive ID
- PKA-DIP-2024-008
- Record title
- Aliʻi Nui offering honi blessing to a young attendee at the United Nations
- Date
- Diplomatic Record
- Location
- United Nations Headquarters, New York
- People identified
- Not documented in the current archive.
- Counterparty
- Not documented in the current archive.
- Counterparty title
- Not documented in the current archive.
- Organization / nation
- Not documented in the current archive.
- Evidence type
- Photographic Record
- Source
- Not documented in the current archive.
- Source type
- Photograph
- Independent corroboration
- KINGDOM DOCUMENTATION — Evidence currently comes primarily from Atooi records.
- Relationship classification
- United Nations Activity · Indigenous Nation Relationship · Royal / Chiefly Relationship · Photographic Documentation
- Public / restricted status
- Public
What this record establishes
The documented presence, meeting, ceremony, or participation visible in the photograph.
What this record does not establish
A photograph documents that an occasion or meeting took place. It does not establish diplomatic recognition, state recognition, a treaty, government acceptance, or any legal ruling.
Corroboration statuses describe where the supporting evidence for a record currently comes from. They are descriptive categories, not scores or rankings, and they do not grade the importance of a record.
Archive Record
- Archive ID
- PKA-DIP-2024-008
- Record title
- Aliʻi Nui offering honi blessing to a young attendee at the United Nations
- Date
- Diplomatic Record
- Location
- United Nations Headquarters, New York
- Category
- Diplomatic Record
- Evidence type
- Photographic Record
- Source type
- Photograph
- Relationship classification
- United Nations Activity · Indigenous Nation Relationship · Royal / Chiefly Relationship · Photographic Documentation
- Independent corroboration
- Not documented in current archive record
- People identified
- Not documented in current archive record
- Organization / community identified
- Not documented in current archive record
- Source filename
- un-honi-blessing-child.jpg
- Status
- Public
- Archive period
- Contemporary Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi
- Last reviewed
- 2026-09-06
“Last reviewed” refers to the date this archive entry was last editorially reviewed on this website. It is not the date of the historical event.
Archival Metadata
- Archive ID
- PKA-DIP-2024-008
- Evidence classification
- Photographic Record
- Context
- United Nations Visit / Activity
- Category
- Diplomatic Record
- Record type
- Photograph
- Date
- Diplomatic Record
- Location
- United Nations Headquarters, New York
- Event
- UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
- Collection
- International Diplomacy
- Credit
- International Diplomacy
- Condition
- excellent
- Rights
- Kingdom of Atooi Archives
Evidence Classification
Photographic Record
A photograph documenting a person, place, object, or occasion.
What this record establishes
The documented presence, meeting, ceremony, or participation visible in the photograph.
What this record does not establish
A photograph documents that an occasion or meeting took place. It does not establish diplomatic recognition, state recognition, a treaty, government acceptance, or any legal ruling.
Context: United Nations Visit / Activity. Attendance or participation is not United Nations recognition, membership, accreditation as a state, or the establishment of a permanent mission.
Archive Categories
- United Nations Activity
- Attendance at, or activity on, United Nations premises or at United Nations forums. Presence or activity is not recognition, membership, or accreditation by the United Nations.
- Indigenous Nation Relationship
- A documented relationship or exchange with another Indigenous nation or Indigenous governing body, on its own terms.
- Royal / Chiefly Relationship
- A documented relationship between the Aliʻi Nui or the Royal House and another hereditary, royal, or chiefly house.
- Photographic Documentation
- A photograph documenting a person, place, object, or occasion. A photograph documents what is visible in it and establishes nothing beyond that.
These categories represent different forms of relationship and should not be treated as interchangeable.
Traditional, Indigenous, royal, and chiefly recognition is documented on its own terms and is not treated as insignificant merely because it differs from modern interstate diplomatic recognition.
Related Records
Other holdings in the archive referring to the same documented place, body, or occasion. A link indicates shared subject matter only.
- Presentation of the Royal Kala During Visit to United Nations Headquarters · Photographic collection · United Nations
- Kingdom delegation at the United Nations Sphere Within Sphere · Archive record · United Nations
- Kingdom delegation at the United Nations Sphere Within Sphere · Archive record · United Nations
- Kingdom of Atooi delegation at the United Nations Sphere within Sphere · Archive record · United Nations
- United Nations memorial flag from the 2010 Haiti earthquake · Archive record · United Nations
- Kingdom delegates in concourse discussion at the United Nations · Archive record · United Nations
- Tahitian press coverage of the Union Royale du Triangle Polynésien · Archive record · United Nations
Subjects
United Nations · Aliʻi Nui · Honi · Intergenerational Blessing
Access
Certified reproductions and full source files may be requested through the archive access request.