Duke Kahanamoku at Huntington Beach
Dublin Core
Title
Duke Kahanamoku at Huntington Beach
Subject
Culture
Indigenous People
Surfing
California
Indigenous People
Surfing
California
Description
This picture shows Duke Kahnamoku standing on Huntington Beach with four white surfers with their surfboards stood up on the sand with the Pacific ocean in the background. Duke Kahnamoku is stood in the middle of the group wearing a white suit with a hula flower neck garland, a widely recognised symbol of Hawaiian culture.
Duke Kahnamoku was an integral figure in the Hawaiian surfing culture developing in Southern California. The white surfers could be posing for a photograph with Hawaiian world class surfer and swimmer Duke Kahnamoku as he was a renowned figure among surfers for his part in bringing the culture to California.
Huntington Beach was also an important location in surf culture, providing the ideal tides and was home to the first surf shops in Los Angeles.
Duke Kahnamoku was an integral figure in the Hawaiian surfing culture developing in Southern California. The white surfers could be posing for a photograph with Hawaiian world class surfer and swimmer Duke Kahnamoku as he was a renowned figure among surfers for his part in bringing the culture to California.
Huntington Beach was also an important location in surf culture, providing the ideal tides and was home to the first surf shops in Los Angeles.
Creator
Unknown
Publisher
Herald-Examiner Collection, Los Angeles Public Library
Date
1965
Contributor
Jake Marshall
Rights
Herald-Examiner Collection, Los Angeles Public Library
Found in ‘Surfing for Freedom: Black Surfers and Reclaiming Cultural History in Los Angeles’
https://www.kcet.org/history-society/surfing-for-freedom-black-surfers-and-reclaiming-cultural-history-in-los-angeles
Found in ‘Surfing for Freedom: Black Surfers and Reclaiming Cultural History in Los Angeles’
https://www.kcet.org/history-society/surfing-for-freedom-black-surfers-and-reclaiming-cultural-history-in-los-angeles
Language
N/A
Type
Visual - photograph
Identifier
20th century California
Files
Collection
Citation
Unknown, “Duke Kahanamoku at Huntington Beach,” The American Pacific Rim: Colonisation, Conflict and Connections, 1800-Present, accessed April 28, 2024, https://theamericanpacificrim.omeka.net/items/show/284.