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Statues of Kamehameha I
Several Kamehameha statues honor the monarch who founded the Kingdom of Hawaii.[1]
Original work
Main article: Kamehameha statue (original cast)
The pictured statue stands prominently in front of Aliʻiolani Hale in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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The statue had its origins in 1878 when Walter M. Gibson, a member of the Hawaiian government at the time, wanted to commemorate the 100-year arrival of Captain Cook to the Hawaiian Islands. The legislature appropriated $10,000 for the project and made Gibson the director of the project, which originally included native Hawaiians but they soon were off the project and Gibson ran the project by himself.
Gibson contacted Thomas R. Gould, a Boston sculptor living abroad in Florence, Italy to create the statue.
Features
Gould apparently relied mostly on a bust portrait of an elderly Kamehameha, an engraving of "Tamea-mea"[5] that was a thirdhand copy printed in d'Urville's book (1834).
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