‘Who’ll get the wishbone’
Dublin Core
Title
‘Who’ll get the wishbone’
Subject
Annexation
United States
Hawaii
United States
Hawaii
Description
The source is a political caricature which shows ‘Uncle Sam’, a personification of the United States, cutting a chicken and questioning which child (shown as Cuba and Hawaii) will get the wishbone. This source was published at the time of the Spanish-American war during which America was considering Annexing both states. The cartoon reflects growing tensions in the period. The ‘wishing bone’ suggests that both states are hoping to get lucky in that the United States will choose the other state to adjoin to. We now know The US would go on to Annex Hawaii in 1898 after a long power struggle in the region between the Hawaiian monarchy and the US government. The annexation was met with great resistance from Indigenous Hawaiians.
Creator
The Hawaiian Gazette, Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]
Publisher
Hawai'i Digital Newspaper Project
Date
24 December 1897
Contributor
Robert Saunders
Rights
The Library of Congress
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025121/1897-12-24/ed-1/seq-1/
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025121/1897-12-24/ed-1/seq-1/
Language
English
Type
Visual - illustration
Identifier
19th century Hawaii
Files
Collection
Citation
The Hawaiian Gazette, Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii], “‘Who’ll get the wishbone’,” The American Pacific Rim: Colonisation, Conflict and Connections, 1800-Present, accessed April 28, 2024, https://theamericanpacificrim.omeka.net/items/show/305.