Mary Jane Kekulani Fayerweather

Mary Jane Kekulani Fayerweather

Hawaiian musician, teacher, rancher (1842–1930)

📍 Honolulu, Hawaii USA

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Mary Jane Ahia Ahuena Kekulani Fayerweather was a Hawaiian high chiefess (ali'i), composer, musician, teacher, rancher, and cultural historian of Native Hawaiian, British, and American descent. She worked as a teacher in Honolulu before her first of two marriages and later became a rancher and dairy farmer in Mānoa. She composed Hawaiian poetry, chants, and mele and was regarded as an authority on Hawaiian genealogy and culture. She also preserved and transmitted Hawaiian cultural traditions, contributing older mele and genealogical knowledge to historical collections and the Hawaiian-language

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