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  2. Hawaiian art - Wikipedia

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    Hawaiian art. Kuʻu Hae Aloha (My Beloved Flag), Hawaiian cotton quilt from Waimea, before 1918, Honolulu Museum of Art. The Hawaiian archipelago consists of 137 islands in the Pacific Ocean that are far from any other land. Polynesians arrived there one to two thousand years ago, and in 1778 Captain James Cook and his crew became the first ...

  3. Lei niho palaoa - Wikipedia

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    Lei niho palaoa. A lei niho palaoa is a Hawaiian neck ornament traditionally worn by aliʻi (chiefs) of both sexes. The 19th century examples are most commonly made of a whale tooth carved into a hook-shape suspended by plaited human hair. The symbolism is not known; it may represent a tongue that speaks the law, or may represent a vessel for ...

  4. Honolulu Museum of Art - Wikipedia

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    The Honolulu Museum of Art (formerly the Honolulu Academy of Arts) is an art museum in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. The museum is the largest of its kind in the state, and was founded in 1922 by Anna Rice Cooke. The museum has one of the largest single collections of Asian and Pan-Pacific art in the United States, and since its official opening on April ...

  5. Hawaiian Renaissance - Wikipedia

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    The Hawaiian Renaissance (also called the Hawaiian Cultural Renaissance) was the Hawaiian resurgence of a distinct cultural identity that draws upon traditional Kānaka Maoli culture, with a significant divergence from the tourism -based culture which Hawaiʻi was previously known for worldwide (along with the rest of Polynesia).

  6. Culture of the Native Hawaiians - Wikipedia

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    The culture of the Native Hawaiians encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms practiced by the original residents of the Hawaiian islands, including their knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits. Humans are estimated to have first inhabited the archipelago between 124 and 1120 AD when it was settled by ...

  7. Mahiole - Wikipedia

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    Mahiole. Man Wearing Feather Cloak and Helmit (sic) attributed to Rembrandt Peale. [1] Hawaiian feather helmets, known as mahiole in the Hawaiian language, [2] were worn with feather cloaks (ʻahu ʻula). These were symbols of the highest rank reserved for the men of the aliʻi, [3] the chiefly class of Hawaii.

  8. List of museums in Hawaii - Wikipedia

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    North Kona. Big Island. Science. Located at Kona International Airport, space science and artifacts of astronaut Ellison Onizuka. Bailey House Museum. Wailuku. Maui. Multiple. Historic 19th century house museum with Hawaiian history and art, collection of land snails.

  9. Isaacs Art Center - Wikipedia

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    The Isaacs Art Center is an art museum and retail gallery in Waimea on the Island of Hawaii. It is operated by and for the benefit of the Hawaii Preparatory Academy ; all proceeds benefit the school's scholarship fund.

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