Tinker Swiss Cottage Museum & Gardens

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Hukilau Dinner
August 7, 2014

A night of tropical Hawaiian food and entertainment by Aloha Chicago where you will be introduced to the various dances of the Polynesian Islands including Hawaii, Tahiti, Samoa and New Zealand. There will be beautiful costume changes, amazing hula dance prop performance, stunning male drummer performer and fun audience participation. So come, enjoy a night of festive entertainment to help commemorate Tinker's new exhibit: Feel the Life of Hawaii.

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Feel the Life of Hawaii
May 20– December 14

Robert Hall Tinker was born in the Hawaiian Islands on December 31, 1836 to Reuben and Mary Throop Wood Tinker. The Tinker family moved to the Hawaiian Islands in the 1830s to become missionaries. Many early missionaries knew that they would probably never return home and devoted their lives to saving the souls of natives, or die trying. While there, the family was involved in many religious, ceremonial, and practical movements by both the Board of Foreign Missions and the native Hawaiians. When Robert Tinker was 10 years old, his father decided that it was growing harder to provide a good Christian upbringing to his growing nest and to continue with his missionary work. The family left the islands and returned to America with many artifacts, and unique experiences gained from their time on the islands.

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