Iwikauikaua was a Hawaiian high chief of Oʻahu.[1]

Iwikauikaua
SpouseKeakamahana
Kauākahikuaʻanaʻauakāne
IssueKeakealaniwahine
Kāneikaiwilani
FatherMakakaualiʻi
MotherKapukāmola

Family edit

He was a son of the chief Makakaualiʻi[2] and chiefess Kapukāmola and grandson of Kūkaʻilani.

His wives included Hawaiian Queen Keakamahana.[3] with whom he had a daughter, Queen Keakealaniwahine.[4] With Kauākahikuaʻanaʻauakāne (w) he was the father of Kāneikaiwilani (k) who married his half sister Keakealaniwahine.[5]

He was a grandfather of King Keaweʻīkekahialiʻiokamoku and Queen Kalanikauleleiaiwi.

His kapu was the burning kukui torch at midday, which his descendant Kalākaua used to symbolize his own dynasty.

References edit

  1. ^ Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History
  2. ^ Abraham Fornander (1880). An Account of the Polynesian Race: Its Origins and Migrations, and the Ancient History of the Hawaiian People to the Times of Kamehameha I. Trubner & Company. p. 125.
  3. ^ Kumulipo
  4. ^ Robert F. Oaks. Hawaii:: A History of the Big Island.
  5. ^ Abraham Fornander (1880). An Account of the Polynesian Race: Origins and migrations of the Polynesian race. 1878-80. Trübner & Company. p. 128.