Smithsonian sending Hawaiian shipwreck artifacts to Kauai for display


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  • Saturday, 11 Apr 2015

A watercolor by Captain Richard W. Rogers depicts a scene with both historical and archaeological information of the shipwreck of an 83-foot long ship which belonged to King Kamehameha II, aka Liholiho, the second king of Hawaii, courtesy of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History (SI/NMAH). REUTERS/Smithsonian National Museum of American History/Handout

(Reuters) - Artefacts recovered from an 1824 shipwreck of a Hawaiian king's yacht will soon go on display at a museum on the island of Kauai.

The Smithsonian Institution in Washington is moving to the Kauai Museum some 1,250 lots of artifacts from the shipwreck which experts say open a window into cultural change in the archipelago from its period of westernization.

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