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.

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. — Rapa Nui, 2012

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

Photographic record of the Kingdom's ceremonial mission to Rapa Nui, documenting hereditary audiences, sacred rites, and the ancestral monuments of the island

Collection Record

2012Rapa Nui10 Plates

Plates from the ceremonial mission of the Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi to Rapa Nui, documenting formal audiences with Ariki and customary chiefs, participation in sacred ground ceremony, and observances before the monumental moai of the island.

Photographic Evidence

What a photograph may establish

Presence, a meeting, a ceremony, a delegation, a gathering, and shared participation, as recorded in the image and its caption.

What a photograph alone does not establish

Formal state recognition, government endorsement, recognition by the United Nations, interstate treaty status, or legal jurisdiction.

Traditional, ceremonial, and cultural significance recorded in these plates is documented on its own terms and is not diminished by this note.

Aliʻi Nui and Aliʻi Moʻi Antoinette in ceremonial audience with leaders of Rapa Nui

Aliʻi Nui present at sacred ground ceremony in Rapa Nui

Aliʻi Nui and Aliʻi Moʻi Antoinette with Ariki Tuki in Rapa Nui

Aliʻi Nui with customary chiefs of Rapa Nui

Aliʻi Nui before an ancestral moai in Rapa Nui

Royal delegation of Atooi before the fifteen moai of Ahu Tongariki, Rapa Nui

Aliʻi Nui with Ariki Tuki and a customary chief of Rapa Nui in the diaspora

Rapa Nui customary leader and his wife with Aliʻi Nui and Aliʻi Moʻi Antoinette before the Kamehameha I statue at Aliʻiōlani Hale, Honolulu

Aliʻi Nui with the Rapa Nui delegation at the lūʻau on Oʻahu

Aliʻi Moʻi Antoinette seated beside a moai of Rano Raraku, Rapa Nui

Archive records catalogued under the same places and subjects as this collection.

Rapa Nui Ceremonial Procession — Rapa Nui, 2012 · PKA-CER-2024-002
Rapa Nui Royal Meeting — Rapa Nui (Easter Island) · PKA-JRN-2024-004
Rapa Nui Ceremonial Exchange — Rapa Nui (Easter Island) · PKA-JRN-2024-008
Rapa Nui Ceremonial Procession — Rapa Nui (Easter Island) · PKA-CER-2024-007
Rapa Nui Chiefs Gathering — Rapa Nui (Easter Island) · PKA-JRN-2024-009
Visit to Ahu Tongariki — Ahu Tongariki, Rapa Nui (Easter Island) · PKA-JRN-2024-010

Last reviewed: 2026-09-06 — the date this collection entry was last editorially reviewed on this website, not the date of the events depicted.

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

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