IDNO

P.99042.GCUM

Description

Full-length studio portrait of Queen Lydia Kamakaeha Dominis, also known as Lilino Kalani, wearing a European style dress adorned with a medal and sash. [JD 23/5/2008]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; N America; United States of America; Hawaii

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Queen Lydia Liluokalani; also known as Queen Lydia Kamakaeha Dominis, Lydia Liliuokalani Paki, Lydia Kamakaeha Paki

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

?Gordon Cumming, Constance Frederica

Date

?24 November 1879

Collection Name

Gordon Cumming Collection

Source

Gordon Cumming, Constance Frederica

Format

Cabinet Card

Primary Documentation

Other Information

This album has been transferred from CUMMA’s Object Collections (original accession number Z 4152), into the Photographic Collections, and catalogued with the support of the Getty Grant Program One.

P.98869.GCUM to P.99045.GCUM are in A.169.GCUM.

Biographical Information: “Queen Lydia Liluokalani
Born: September 2, 1838
Died: November 11, 1917
Ruled: January 20, 1891 - November 11, 1917
Lydia Kamakaeha was born in Honolulu on September 2, 1838. She was adopted shirtly after her birth by Abner Paki and his wife Laura Konia, a grandaughter of King Kamehameha I. After she was adopted she was known as Lydia Liliuokalani Paki and sometimes as Lydia Kamakaeha Paki. She grew up alongside the Paki's natural daughter Princess Bernice Pauahi.
The future Queen Liliuokalani married John Owen Dominis on September 16, 1862. They never had any children but she named her sister's daughter Princess Victoria Kaiulani as her heir. Unfortunatley Princess Kaiulani died at the young age of 23, but she lived long enough to witness the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
Liliuokalani became heir to the Hawaiian thrown When her brother, King David Kalakaua, became King. She became queen at age 50 when King Kalakaua died on January 17, 1891. Her neice and heir, Princess Kaiulani, was bout 16 at the time. ” [Source: Hawaii Travel, www.hawaiitravelnewsletter.com, JD 23/5/2008]

Publication: The photograph has been digitised for the European Collected Library of Artistic Performance (ECLAP) and is accessible on the portal http://www.eclap.eu/drupal/. [SG 31/10/2012]