Vogue Runwayさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Vogue RunwayInstagram)「The word cowboy may more readily conjure up images of ramshackle saloons and the austere plains of the Wild West, but Hawaiian cowboys actually predate those on the mainland by about half a decade. In 1792, after British sea captain George Vancouver presented King Kamehameha, the founder and first ruler of the Kingdom of Hawaii, with four cows, two ewes, and a ram, Kamehameha put a kapu, or a restriction, on killing the animals. The cattle, who were at that time enclosed in a large pen in north Kona, bred and proliferated rapidly. It wasn’t until 1830 that King Kamehameha III lifted the kapu, and by then the animals were wreaking havoc on the island’s farmlands and fields. In 1832, Kamehameha III brought in three Mexican-Spanish vaqueros (cowboys) from California to teach native Hawaiians how to round up the hordes of cattle, and over time these skilled Hawaiians, who developed a completely distinct style of herding, down to the intricate and idiosyncratic braiding of their saddles, came to be known as paniolos. At the link in our bio, we meet Aunty DeeDee Keakealani Bertelmann and her family in the heart of cowboy country. A fifth-generation rancher from a long line of paniolo, or Hawaiian cowboys, she raises cattle on 500 acres of land in Waimea with her family. Tap the link in our bio to learn about her family’s history. Photographed by @thisismayan」6月15日 4時37分