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.

Their Majesties the Aliʻi Nui and Aliʻi Moʻi Antoinette beside the official royal portrait, flanked by ceremonial ʻahu ʻula commissioned of a master painter of the Royal House. — Atooi · Honolulu · Vatican City · Aotearoa · Rapa Nui · Turtle Island, 2014 – 2024

Photographic Record of the Aliʻi Nui — Portraits and Journeys

Selected photographic record of the Aliʻi Nui and Aliʻi Moʻi Antoinette across formal portraiture, ceremonial sites, and journeys abroad

Collection Record

2014 – 2024Atooi · Honolulu · Vatican City · Aotearoa · Rapa Nui · Turtle Island10 Plates

An institutional selection of formal portraits and photographs documenting the Royal House of Atooi in Kingdom portraiture, at sacred ceremonial sites, and in meetings with Indigenous and international counterparts.

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 beside the royal portrait of the Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi

Aliʻi Nui with assembled citizens on the steps of ʻIolani Palace

Aliʻi Nui and Aliʻi Moʻi Antoinette with a visiting guest at the pōhaku

Aliʻi Moʻi Antoinette and Aliʻi Nui with a visiting guest

Aliʻi Nui and Aliʻi Moʻi Antoinette before Saint Peter's Basilica

Aliʻi Nui and Aliʻi Moʻi Antoinette with a bishop in Vatican City

Aliʻi Nui with Māori kin within a carved wharenui in Aotearoa

Aliʻi Nui with Polynesian kin at the rim of Rano Kau, Rapa Nui

Aliʻi Nui in formal exchange with a First Nations chief of Turtle Island

Aliʻi Nui in formal portrait bearing the full tā moko of the Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi

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
Aotearoa Cultural Exchange — Aotearoa (New Zealand), 2012 · PKA-JRN-2024-006
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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