1. Seated on top of woven lauhala mats on board the ship from Boston were seven of the newly arrived missionary wives and four of the most prestigious members of Hawaii's royal family.

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2. Among them was Namahana, the widow of Kamehameha I, and her sister Kalakua.

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3. They were accompanied by two of the wives of the chief Kalanimoku.

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4. Furnished by the missionary women with blocks of cloth as well as scissors, needles, and thread, the members of the royal party learned some sewing techniques in spite of the existence of a language barrier.

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5. During that first sewing session, a collective effort was made to cut out and sew a dress reflecting Mainland styles of clothing in 1819 for Kalakua to wear later that day at Kailua.

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6. Blocks of cloth pieced together by members of the sewing circle on that day may never have resulted in a finished quilt.

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7. But the Islanders had caught quilting fever and a permanent desire to work with layers of cloth sewn together in a way more suited to their expressive tendency to "talk story."

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8. For scraps or blocks of cloth, salvaged from a worn garment or bed covering, had less allure for them than expressing their narrative interest in a favorite kind of fruit or vegetable or a motif associated with a living person or incident made visibly tangible by means of a two-color palette.

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9. A distinctinctive kind of quilting evolved with a pattern cut from a cloth folded in eighths into multiple repeats of a single motif to be applied onto a solid colored ground sheet with a contrasting color.

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10. Typical of their preference for symmetrical balanced patterns is a quilt called Bird of Paradise with its storytelling component about a faithless lover.

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11. Between branches with green leaves and red blossoms associated with an Ohia-Lehua tree is a mamo bird flitting from flower to flower like an unfaithful lover turning his attention first to one sweetheart and then to another.

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12. Another interesting narrative is seen on a quilt called Manu Lawe Leka, The Carrier Pigeion, showing a bird with an envelope in its beak to serve as a reminder of the first regular postal service to the island of Kauai.

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