73 FIG. 5 (above): The new Pacific Hall with inlaid floor map and ‘Anu’u Nu’u Ka ‘Ike (Many Levels of Wisdom) mural by some thirty members of the Pacific community. Photo courtesy of the Bishop Museum. FIG. 6 (right): Slit drums, tamtam, at the entrance to the Pacific Hall. Malekula (left and right), Vanuatu. 19th–early 20th century. Wood, pigment. Bishop Museum inv. #8129 (W. Truss, Purchase, 1898); B.07870 (Paul Stermer, Gift, 1924); and 8130 (W. Truss, Purchase, 1898). The last of her line, she is said to have refused the Hawaiian throne at the deathbed of King Kamehameha V. At her death in 1884, her personal property was bequeathed to her husband, a prominent local banker, and the rest of her estate went into a nonprofit trust that, even today, is the largest landowner in the state of Hawai‘i. The following year, Queen Emma, queen consort of King Kamehameha IV, gave Mr. Bishop all of her “Hawaiian curiosities” on condition that, along with Bernice’s possessions, they would be placed in an institute to be called the Kamehameha Museum. The museum, which was ultimately named after Bernice, was founded in 1889 and built in the Kapalama district as an adjunct to the Kamehameha School for Boys, an institution created through a bequest from the princess’ estate to benefit Native Hawaiian children. The school relocated in 1940. Architect William F. Smith of San Francisco designed the original museum building in a style known as Richardsonian Romanesque using blocks of local bluestone lava rock quarried from the museum’s grounds (figs. 2 and 3). It includes the Entry Tower, Entrance Hall, Kahili Room (fig. 10), Vestibule Gallery (later the Joseph M. Long Gallery), Hawaiian Hall Gallery (fig. 4), and Picture
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