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English: Kekāuluohi. Sketched by A. T. Agate; engraved by Welch and Walter.

Charles Wilkes described the encounter in his Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition (p. 4):

The person who attracted, our attention most, was Kekauluohi. This lady is upwards of six feet in height; her frame is exceedingly large and well covered with fat. She was dressed in yellow silk, with enormously large gigot sleeves, and wore on her head a tiara of beautiful yellow feathers interspersed with a few of a scarlet colour. Above the feathers appeared a large tortoise-shell comb, that confined her straight black hair. Her shoulders were covered with a richly embroidered shawl of scarlet crape. She sat in a large arm-chair, over which was thrown a robe made of the same kind of yellow feathers as decked her tiara. Her feet were encased in white cotton stockings and men’s shoes. She was altogether one of the most remarkable-looking personages I have ever seen.