**By The Bishop Museum** The 19th century was in its infancy. Princess Nāhi'ena'ena, descended from the ali'i and most elite echelons of Maui and Hawai'i Island society, was still only a child when she was gifted a feather pāʻū so magnificent that its fame lives on today. Creating the pāʻū was a massive undertaking. The skirt consisted of 1,000,000 tiny feathers bundled and tied to a n
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