Kanipahu

Kanipahu was an ancient Hawaiian chief. He was of the Pili line.

Kanipahu
Chief of Hawaiʻi
Consorts	Hualani of Molokai Alaʻikauakoko (half-aunt)
Issue	Kanaloa Kalahumoku I Kalapana of Hawaiʻi?
Father	Kaniuhu, Aliʻi of Hawaiʻi Island
Mother	Hiliamakani

Kanipahu was a son of Aliʻi Kaniuhu^[1] and Hiliamakani.

After Kanipahu lived on Molokaʻi and it was discovered that he was a chief, he was taken (as husband) by Hualani, the ruling chiefess of Molokaʻi .^[2] One of the neverforgotten fact of Kanipahuʻs descendants was this marriage. Hualani was the great-granddaughter of Nuakea, who was the granddaughter of Maweke. Beside Hualani, of Molakaʻi and Oʻahu descent above mentioned, he also married his half-aunt, Alaʻikauakoko, who at one time, whether previously or subsequently cannot now be ascertained, was the wife of Lakona of Oahu. With one of them he fathered two sons: Kanaloa—father of Kalapana of Hawaiʻi—and Kalahumoku I,^[3] ancestor of Akahiʻakuleʻana.

David Malo said Alaʻikauakoko was the mother of Kalapana, making Kalapana Kanipahu's son instead of grandson. Malo skips this generation, showing Kalapana as the son of Kanipahu.^[4]