Gathering of Hereditary Chiefs — Tahiti and Moʻorea, 2018

Contextual photograph — convocation, French Polynesia. The date of this photograph is under review. It should not be read as dating the record or collection it accompanies.

His Majesty the Aliʻi Nui and accompanying delegates received at Fare Tahupeo during the Kingdom's visit to Tahiti, documenting a ceremonial welcome within the Society Islands mission.

His Majesty the Aliʻi Nui in formal portrait with hereditary chiefs of the Society Islands within the sacred valley of Moʻorea, before the ancestral peaks of the island.

Aliʻi Nui with Tahitian chiefs, French Polynesia. The date of this photograph is under review: it is recorded elsewhere in this archive as 2015, 2017 and 2018, and the correct date is not established.

The seated delegations of the Pacific island nations — Tuvalu, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Aotearoa, and the Cook Islands among them — assembled in formal council beneath the thatched fare of the convocation grounds, the national standards of each delegation draped along the long table of audience.

His Majesty the Aliʻi Nui, garlanded in shell lei and kukui, photographed in farewell company with the assembled delegates, musicians, and hosts of the Society Islands at Faʻaʻā International Airport upon the conclusion of the Pan-Polynesian convocation — the customary ukulele bearer attending, the company adorned in floral lei of tiare, pikake, and frangipani.