Statue of Kamehameha I (Honolulu)

The Kamehameha I statue (Honolulu cast) is an outdoor sculpture by American artist Thomas Ridgeway Gould, erected in 1883.

The statue is an oversized brass cast of King Kamehameha I, the ruler credited with unifying the Hawaiian Islands in the early nineteenth century and establishing the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi in 1810.

It was placed in front of the Aliʻiōlani Hale government building in Honolulu, the spot intended for the original cast, and remains there to this day.

[1] Gibson selected American artist Thomas Ridgeway Gould to create the statue, who finished the full-size plaster model for the work in 1880.

The replacement statue arrived in Honolulu in January, 1883, but the original cast had already been recovered from the sea and finally completed its journey to Hawaiʻi in March, 1882.

[5] The scenes depicted on the panels include: The Kamehameha I statue (second cast) has become an important political symbol for the Hawaiian Islands.