"Do they welcome in such a manner their high chief?"
She would become the highest female chief in Hawaii at the time.
Like many of the high chiefs, she quickly found herself land rich but cash poor.
It is made up of the highest traditional chiefs from each state.
It was the High Chief who came to the table.
To remain standing while a high chief passed would have been the greatest of insults.
His official enthronement as high chief was attended by over 2,000 people.
A still higher chief of inspection was summoned, evidently from his bed.
It was used as a residence for the high chief and meeting house of the lesser chiefs.
Unlike the monarch, the average high chief got an award, after taxes, of perhaps just a bit over $3.5 million.
