Herb Kawainui Kane
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Herbert "Herb" Kawainui Kane (born 1928) is an artist-historian and author with special interest in Hawai'i and the South Pacific.
Born in Minnesota, Kane was actually raised in Waipio and Hilo, Hawaiʻi, and Wisconsin. His art and articles have appeared in locations such as the Hawaiʻi State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and the National Park Service, as well as in books and major magazines, including National Geographic. He has designed postage stamps for the U.S. Postal Service and several Pacific island nations, including the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and French Polynesia.
Kane is one of the founders of the Polynesian Voyaging Society, which engendered the historic Hokulea project, and a member of the panel of experts for the 1998 PBS program Wayfinders: A Pacific Odyssey.[1] He is the author of Pele, Goddess of Volcanoes (1987), Voyagers (1991), and Ancient Hawaiʻi (1997).
In 1984, Kane was elected a "Living Treasure of Hawaiʻi". In the 1987 "Year of the Hawaiian Celebration", he was one of 16 selected as Po'okela (Champion). In 1998, he received the Bishop Museum's Charles Reed Bishop Medal. In 2002, he won the Hawaiʻi Book Publishers Association Award for Excellence in Book Publishing.
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- Radford, Georgia and Warren Radford, "Sculpture in the Sun, Hawaii's Art for Open Spaces", University of Hawaii Press, 1978, 94.
