Traditional & Chiefly Relations

Place

Kauaʻi, Hawaiʻi.

Year

Kingdom records place the formal declaration of sovereign continuity at Kauaʻi in 2008 (record GIR-001), while the ceremonial journey entry gives 2012 for ceremonies on the island, and the modern organisation of the Kingdom is separately recorded as beginning on Kauaʻi in 1990. These are recorded as three distinct occasions rather than one, and no single ceremony date has been fixed.

Kingdom delegation

Aliʻi Nui Aleka Aipoalani.

Traditional authorities present

Cultural practitioners and community members took part. Naming participants in customary ceremony also requires their consent and, in some cases, the consent of their own house.

Nature of the relationship

Ceremonies held on Kauaʻi with participation by cultural practitioners and community members, within the Kingdom's own ceremonial calendar — protocol instruction, chant and oli, and regalia-making are recorded as observed on Kauaʻi.

Ceremony and protocol

Customary ceremony conducted on Kauaʻi. The archive records cultural practitioners in feathered regalia at a heiau site, a sunrise ceremony with oli at a valley site, and a ceremonial offering presented by Kingdom representatives.

Regalia and chiefly objects

Feathered regalia worn by cultural practitioners, and a ceremonial offering presented by Kingdom representatives, are recorded in the photographic captions.

Photographs

Photographic record held in the Kingdom archive.

Related official records

Kingdom ceremonial records for Kauaʻi; relationship record GIR-001 (Seat of the Kingdom — Sovereign Declaration); the ceremonial journeys entry for Kauaʻi. No archive reference number has been assigned to the ceremonies themselves.

Place

Rapa Nui, eastern Polynesia. Places recorded in the photographic collection: the ceremonial enclosure and its standing stone, Ahu Tongariki and its fifteen moai, the Rano Raraku quarry, and Rano Kau crater. Related audiences with Rapa Nui figures are separately recorded at Aliʻiōlani Hale in Honolulu, at a lūʻau on Oʻahu, and at Vatican City.

Year

The journey entry and relationship record GIR-003 give 2014; the photographic collection of the mission is catalogued as 2012, as is the procession photograph (PKA-CER-2024-002); the diplomatic references for the Rapa Nui material are numbered DIP-RN-2019-001 to 003 and carry no date.

Kingdom delegation

Aliʻi Nui Aleka Aipoalani, with a Kingdom delegation.

Traditional authorities present

The Ariki Tuki Make Make of Rapa Nui is named in the archive and appears in the photographic record with the Aliʻi Nui. Customary chiefs of Rapa Nui received the delegation; they are not individually named.

Titles and royal houses

Ariki Tuki Make Make, styled in the archive as the Ariki of Rapa Nui. No other title or house is documented.

Nature of the relationship

Ceremonial mission. The delegation was received under Rapa Nui customary protocol in a formal audience and in a later informal audience with customary chiefs, with observances at ancestral sites and an exchange of greenery. A separate record documents a meeting on Rapa Nui with petty officers of the Armada de Chile; that is a naval courtesy meeting and is not part of the customary reception.

Ceremony and protocol

Customary reception with branches gathered for the rite of welcome; a ceremony on sacred ground; observance before the ancestral moai and before the fifteen moai of Ahu Tongariki; an exchange of greenery. The precise traditional protocol is not documented beyond what the photographs and captions record.

Regalia and chiefly objects

The Ariki Tuki appears in a red feathered korowai and crown of office. Credential lanyards of the Pan-Polynesian Convocation are worn in the record. Branches and greenery were borne for the rite of welcome. The Kingdom standard appears in the procession photograph.

Photographs

Photographic record held in the Kingdom archive. The collection includes the ceremonial audience, the ground ceremony, a portrait with the Ariki Tuki beside the standing stone of the ceremonial enclosure, the audience with customary chiefs, the moai and Ahu Tongariki observances, the procession, the gathering of chiefs, and the related Oʻahu audiences.

Related official records

Photographic collection of the ceremonial mission to Rapa Nui; archive records PKA-CER-2024-002, PKA-CER-2024-007, PKA-JRN-2024-004, PKA-JRN-2024-008, PKA-JRN-2024-009 and PKA-JRN-2024-010; diplomatic references DIP-RN-2019-001, 002 and 003; relationship record GIR-003. No corresponding published account by a Rapa Nui body has been located.

Place

Papeʻete, Tahiti, French Polynesia. Places recorded: Faʻaʻā International Airport, Fare Tahupeo, and a valley site on Moʻorea.

Year

The journey entry and relationship record GIR-004 give 2015; archive record PKA-JRN-2024-007 gives 2017, as do the diplomatic references DIP-PF-2017-001 to 003; the photographic collection of the convocation is catalogued as 2018. The archive already notes that the same photograph is dated 2015 in one entry, 2017 in another and 2018 in the photographic plate, and that the correct date is not established.

Kingdom delegation

Aliʻi Nui Aleka Aipoalani, with a Kingdom delegation.

Traditional authorities present

Customary chiefs of Tahiti received the delegation; the archive records elders bearing full traditional tatau. Delegations from Tuvalu, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Aotearoa and the Cook Islands are recorded as seated in council. No individual is named.

Nature of the relationship

Customary reception and cultural exchange, together with a gathering of hereditary chiefs described in the archive as the Pan-Polynesian Convocation, at which Pacific delegations sat in council with their national flags along the table. The delegation was received at the airport with feathered headdresses, ceremonial leis and a traditional welcome, and was hosted at Fare Tahupeo. The visit was covered by Tahitian press.

Ceremony and protocol

Airport reception and garlanding; a formal banquet of the convocation; reception at Fare Tahupeo; a seated council of Pacific delegations; a garlanded farewell at the airport with a customary ukulele bearer. A kava ceremony is described in the Tahitian press record. The precise traditional protocol is not documented beyond what the photographs, captions and press account record.

Regalia and chiefly objects

Full ceremonial vesture and traditional tatau worn by Tahitian elders; feathered headdresses; maile, tiare, pikake, frangipani, shell and kukui lei; the national flags of the attending Pacific delegations draped along the council table; an ukulele borne at the farewell.

Photographs

Photographic record held in the Kingdom archive. The record includes the arrival and press reception, the convocation banquet, the reception at Fare Tahupeo, the seated council of delegations, the chiefs' reception, and the airport farewell.

Related official records

Photographic collection of the convocation at Tahiti and Moʻorea; archive records PKA-JRN-2024-007 and PKA-PRS-2024-004 (Tahitian press report); diplomatic references DIP-PF-2017-001, 002 and 003; relationship record GIR-004.

Place

Aotearoa, New Zealand. Places recorded: a marae, a carved wharenui, and the cultural pavilion of the mission.

Year

The journey entry and relationship record GIR-005 give 2016; the photographic collection of the mission and archive record PKA-JRN-2024-006 give 2012.

Kingdom delegation

Aliʻi Nui Aleka Aipoalani, with a Kingdom delegation.

Traditional authorities present

A kaumātua tohunga of Aotearoa, bearing the moko kanohi of the Māori chiefly tradition, is recorded in audience with the Aliʻi Nui. Hereditary chiefs of the Polynesian nations and a chiefly council are recorded as present, as are matriarchs of the Polynesian diaspora in the cultural pavilion, and the Ariki Tuki Make Make of Rapa Nui. A New Zealand Police officer, accompanied by a kupuna of the Polynesian community, is recorded in a formal exchange. No individual is named.

Titles and royal houses

Titles recorded without personal names: kaumātua tohunga of Aotearoa; Ariki Tuki Make Make of Rapa Nui. No house or iwi affiliation is recorded.

Nature of the relationship

Ceremonial journey. The delegation was welcomed by pōwhiri onto a marae, held private audience with customary chiefs beneath a historic painted tapa cloth, met a kaumātua tohunga, and took part in a ceremony upon the marae which the archive records as a Pan-Polynesian investiture. Dialogue concerned Indigenous self-determination and cultural preservation.

Ceremony and protocol

Pōwhiri welcome onto the marae; private audience beneath the painted tapa cloth; audience with a kaumātua tohunga; a rite of binding recorded at a consecrated stone altar of the Pan-Polynesian Convocation, attended by the chiefly council. The precise traditional protocol is not documented beyond the archive's own captions, and only what is visible or already recorded is described here.

Regalia and chiefly objects

Red feathered korowai and crown of office worn by the Ariki Tuki of Rapa Nui; a staff and a tapa banner inscribed VIHO AUTAM MATUA borne by the kaumātua tohunga; moko kanohi; a historic painted tapa cloth; the carved wharenui; credential lanyards of the Pan-Polynesian Convocation.

Photographs

Photographic record held in the Kingdom archive. The collection includes the marae ceremony, the audience with customary chiefs, the exchange with the police officer and kupuna, the audience with the kaumātua tohunga, the altar rite, and the cultural pavilion portrait with the Ariki Tuki. One further image used in the relationship record is also used for records in Canada and for Asini Wachi; its location and date are not established. A prior attribution of a separate photograph to Aotearoa was found unsupported and was withdrawn by this archive.

Related official records

Photographic collection of the mission to Aotearoa; archive record PKA-JRN-2024-006; relationship record GIR-005; the Kingdom's oral-tradition account of reception on marae. No corresponding published account by an iwi or other Māori body has been located.