Queen Lili’uokalani and the Kalākaua Cape

William F. Cogswell, Queen Lili’uokalani, 1891, oil on canvas, 243.8 x 182.9 cm (Hawai‘i State Archives) and Maria Kealaulaokalani Lane Ena, ʻAhu ʻula (The Kalākaua Cape), late nineteenth century, red ʻiʻiwi feathers, yellow and black ʻōʻō feathers, and olonā fiber, 76.2 x 193 cm (National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution) A conversation with Dr. Kate Clarke Lemay, Historian, National Portrait Gallery, and Dr. Beth Harris in the exhibition “1898: U.S. Imperial Visions and Revisions“ at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution