Ceremonial Mission to Rapa Nui — Audiences with Ariki and Customary Chiefs, 2012

His Majesty the Aliʻi Nui and Aliʻi Moʻi Antoinette in ceremonial audience with customary leaders of Rapa Nui before the island's sacred stone enclosures, bearing branches gathered for the rite of welcome.

His Majesty the Aliʻi Nui and Aliʻi Moʻi Antoinette present at the sacred ground ceremony of Rapa Nui, witnessed by hereditary leaders and attendants in ceremonial vesture.

His Majesty the Aliʻi Nui and Aliʻi Moʻi Antoinette in formal portrait with Ariki Tuki of Rapa Nui beside the standing stone of the ceremonial enclosure.

His Majesty the Aliʻi Nui in informal audience with customary chiefs of Rapa Nui, documenting a meeting during the island visit.

His Majesty the Aliʻi Nui before an ancestral moai of Rapa Nui, documenting the Aliʻi Nui before the moai (ancestral stone figures) of the island.

The royal delegation of the Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi assembled in solemn alignment before the fifteen ancestral moai of Ahu Tongariki, Rapa Nui — documenting an observance recorded by the Kingdom before the moai (ancestral stone figures) of Rapa Nui.

His Majesty the Aliʻi Nui flanked by Ariki Tuki and a customary chief of Rapa Nui during a kindred audience within the Rapa Nui diaspora, documenting a customary gathering beyond the island itself.

A Rapa Nui customary leader and his wife received in formal audience by His Majesty the Aliʻi Nui Aleka Aipoalani and the Aliʻi Moʻi Antoinette of the Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi before the bronze and gilt statue of Kamehameha I upon the grounds of Aliʻiōlani Hale, Honolulu — the company assembled barefoot in the customary manner upon the lawn of the royal precinct, beneath the standards of the Hawaiian Kingdom and the Union.

The customary leaders of Rapa Nui in informal company with His Majesty the Aliʻi Nui Aleka Aipoalani at the evening lūʻau held in honour of the Rapa Nui visit upon the Island of Oʻahu — a matriarch of the delegation crowned in a feathered haku lei of fern and bright lei pua, the company garlanded in fragrant pua melia.

Her Majesty the Aliʻi Moʻi Antoinette of the Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi recorded in informal portrait beside a partially-buried ancestral moai upon the verdant slope of Rano Raraku — the volcanic quarry of Rapa Nui from which the moai (ancestral stone figures) of the island were hewn — extending the customary shaka in salutation during the ceremonial mission of 2012.