Kepohoniʻs Engraving of Kamehameha I

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Kamehameha, ca. 1838. Drawn and engraved by Kepohoni from a Louis Choris work. Kepohoni was one of the first Native Hawaiian printers and this is one of the earliest portraits by a Native Hawaiian of a Native Hawaiian.

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