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Did You Know?
In 1891, W. Chapin reported that "the morais and the consecrated buildings, with the idols, were on fireā¦the same was done in all the islands." The death of Kamehameha I brought the overthrow of the kapu system, an elaborate social structure of taboos and sanctions among classes and sexes.
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