Hawaii looking back A retrospective on the cusp of the new millennium About this Series The Honolulu Star-Bulletin is counting down to year 2000 with this special series. Each month through December, we'll be highlighting, chronologically, important eras in Hawaii's history. Each month's installment will feature a timeline which, viewed as a whole by year's end, will have recapped Hawaii's milestones -- the building-block events of our future. Millennium Series Archive

By Craig T. Kojima, Star-Bulletin This wooden tiki, or kii, of the war god Ku is believed to have come from a temple of sacrifice in Kona, on the Big Island.