What is the Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi?

The Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi is an Indigenous governing body based on Kauaʻi, formed in its present constitution in 1990. It holds that it continues the lineage and legal standing of the Hawaiian Kingdom. That is the Kingdom's own position; it is not a member or observer of the United Nations and holds no instrument of recognition from any state.

Who is the Aliʻi Nui of the Kingdom of Atooi?

Aliʻi Nui Aleka Aipoalani is Head of State as designated by the Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi. The Kingdom maintains a genealogical claim to the aliʻi of Kauaʻi; that lineage is held in Kingdom and custodial records and is not established by an independent published genealogy in this archive.

What is the Kingdom's position on the 1893 overthrow?

United States Public Law 103-150 (1993) acknowledges that the 1893 overthrow occurred without the consent of the Native Hawaiian people. The Kingdom's position is that Hawaiian sovereignty was therefore never lawfully extinguished. The United States position is that Hawaiʻi is a state of the Union, and no court has ruled in the Kingdom's favour on this question. UNDRIP addresses Indigenous peoples generally and is not a recognition instrument.

How is the Kingdom of Atooi related to King Kamehameha and the Hawaiian Kingdom?

The Kingdom asserts descent from the aliʻi lines of the pre-unification kingdoms of Hawaiʻi, and maintains treaties, decrees and a ceremonial record. These are Kingdom-held records; the archive labels each with its evidence class rather than presenting them as independently verified.

Kingdom of Atooi delegation at the United Nations Sphere within Sphere

Diplomatic Record · PKA-DIP-2024-009

Kingdom Archives

Kingdom of Atooi delegation at the United Nations Sphere within Sphere

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 Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi delegation gathered before Arnaldo Pomodoro's Sphere Within Sphere sculpture on the United Nations Headquarters grounds, New York. The archive records no date for this photograph and does not document the session it relates to.

Evidence & Provenance

Archive ID: PKA-DIP-2024-009
Record title: Kingdom of Atooi delegation at the United Nations Sphere within Sphere
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 · 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-2024-009
Record title: Kingdom of Atooi delegation at the United Nations Sphere within Sphere
Date: Diplomatic Record
Location: United Nations Headquarters, New York
Category: Diplomatic Record
Evidence type: Photographic Record
Source type: Photograph
Relationship classification: United Nations Activity · 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-sphere-delegation.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-2024-009
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 Delegation Group Photograph
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.
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.

Shared Photograph

This photograph is intentionally referenced by more than one record documenting the same occasion.

This entry is the master photograph record for this image.

Related Records

Other holdings in the archive referring to the same documented place, body, or occasion. A link indicates shared subject matter only.

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Kingdom delegation at the United Nations Sphere Within Sphere · Archive record · United Nations
Aliʻi Nui offering honi blessing to a young attendee at the United Nations · 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 · Delegation · Sphere Within Sphere

Access

Certified reproductions and full source files may be requested through the archive access request.