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English: Kini Kapahu, (right) and her colleague (either Pauahi Pinao or Pauahi Kamokei) played music and danced the hula at the Midway Plaisance at the World’s Columbian Exhibition, Chicago, in 1893. They chose to wear flowers and grass skirts to play into stereotypes of Hawaiian identity.
Date circa 1893
date QS:P,+1893-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source

Hix, Lisa (March 22, 2017). How America's Obsession With Hula Girls Almost Wrecked Hawaiʻi. Collectors Weekly. Retrieved on May 18, 2017.

  • Hoverson, Martha. Hawaii at the Fair. Chinese in Northwest America Research Committee. Retrieved on May 18, 2017.
Author John B. Wilson
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