Kingdom delegation at the United Nations Sphere Within Sphere
Journey Documentation · PKA-JRN-2024-005
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and legal grounds; they are classified as continuity claims and are neither established nor diminished by the historical documents themselves.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
Duplicate use of the delegation photograph taken before the Sphere Within Sphere sculpture on the United Nations Headquarters grounds, New York. The previously recorded Aotearoa location and event were not supported by the image or by any document in the archive and have been removed.
Evidence & Provenance
- Archive ID
- PKA-JRN-2024-005
- Record title
- Kingdom delegation at the United Nations Sphere Within Sphere
- Date
- Journey Documentation
- 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-JRN-2024-005
- Record title
- Kingdom delegation at the United Nations Sphere Within Sphere
- Date
- Journey Documentation
- Location
- United Nations Headquarters, New York
- Category
- Journey Documentation
- 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-JRN-2024-005
- Evidence classification
- Photographic Record
- Context
- United Nations Visit / Activity
- Category
- Journey Documentation
- Record type
- Photograph
- Date
- Journey Documentation
- Location
- United Nations Headquarters, New York
- Event
- UN Delegation Group Photograph
- Collection
- Ceremonial Journeys
- Credit
- Ceremonial Journeys
- 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.
Master photograph record for this image: Kingdom of Atooi delegation at the United Nations Sphere within Sphere
Duplicate Image Notice
Same photograph as PKA-DIP-2024-009. PKA-DIP-2024-009 is the canonical primary record.
View canonical primary record →Related Records
Other holdings in the archive referring to the same documented place, body, or occasion. A link indicates shared subject matter only.
- Photographic Record of the Aliʻi Nui — Portraits and Journeys · Photographic collection · Aotearoa
- Journey to Aotearoa — Audiences with Customary Chiefs of the Polynesian Nations, 2012 · Photographic collection · Aotearoa
- Gathering of Hereditary Chiefs — Tahiti and Moʻorea, 2018 · Photographic collection · Aotearoa
- Presentation of the Royal Kala During Visit to United Nations Headquarters · Photographic collection · United Nations
- Aliʻi Nui with Māori chiefs, Aotearoa · Archive record · Aotearoa
- Kingdom delegation at the United Nations Sphere Within Sphere · Archive record · Aotearoa, 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
Field Marshal · United Nations · Delegation
Access
Certified reproductions and full source files may be requested through the archive access request.