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consists of 137 islands in the
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that are far from any other land.
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ns arrived there one to two thousand years ago, and in 1778 Captain James Cook and his crew became the first
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ans to visit
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(which they called the Sandwich Islands). The art created in these islands may be divided into art existing prior to Cook’s arrival; art produced by recently arrived westerners; and art produced by Hawaiians incorporating western materials and ideas. Public collections of Hawaiian art may be found at the
Honolulu Museum of Art The Honolulu Museum of Art (formerly the Honolulu Academy of Arts) is an art museum in Honolulu, Hawaii. 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 co ...
, the Bishop Museum (Honolulu), the Hawaii State Art Museum and the
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in Germany. In 1967, Hawaii became the first state in the nation to implement a
Percent for Art The term percent for art refers to a program, often a city ordinance, where a fee, usually some percentage of the project cost, is placed on large scale development projects in order to fund and install public art. The details of such programs va ...
law. The Art in State Buildings Law established the Art in Public Places Program and designated one percent of the construction costs of new public schools and state buildings for the acquisition of works of art, either by commission or by purchase.


Art prior to Cook's arrival

Art existing prior to Cook’s arrival is very similar to the art of other Pacific Islanders. This art includes
wood carving Wood carving is a form of woodworking by means of a cutting tool (knife) in one hand or a chisel by two hands or with one hand on a chisel and one hand on a mallet, resulting in a wooden figure or figurine, or in the sculptural ornamentation ...
s, feather work, petroglyphs, bark cloth (called
kapa Kapa is a fabric made by native Hawaiians from the bast fibres of certain species of trees and shrubs in the orders Rosales and Malvales. Description and uses It is similar to ''tapa'' found elsewhere in Polynesia (the Hawaiian phoneme corr ...
in Hawaiian and tapa elsewhere in the Pacific) and tattoos. Native Hawaiians had neither
metal A metal (from Greek μέταλλον ''métallon'', "mine, quarry, metal") is a material that, when freshly prepared, polished, or fractured, shows a lustrous appearance, and conducts electricity and heat relatively well. Metals are typicall ...
nor woven cloth. Production of this art continued after Cook’s arrival. A few craftsmen still produce traditional Hawaiian arts, either to sell to tourists or to preserve native culture.


Art produced by visitors

Some of the first westerners to visit Hawaii were artists—both professional and amateur. Many of the explorers’ ships had professional artists to record their discoveries. These artists sketched and painted Hawaii’s people and landscapes using imported materials and concepts. Artists in this category include Alfred Thomas Agate (American 1812-1849), Mabel Alvarez (American 1891-1985),
Auguste Borget Auguste Borget (1808–1877) was a French artist known for his drawings and prints of exotic places, in particular China. He was born in 1808 in Issoudun, Indre. At age 21, he went to Paris where he became a close friend of Honoré de Balzac. ...
(French 1809-1877),
George Henry Burgess George Henry Burgess (8 June 1831 – 22 April 1905) was an English American painter, wood engraver and lithographer.Hughes 1986, p. 72. In London, he received training in lithography. With two other brothers preceding them, in 1850 Burgess trave ...
(English 1831-1905),
Jean Charlot Louis Henri Jean Charlot (February 8, 1898 – March 20, 1979) was a French-born American painter and illustrator, active mainly in Mexico and the United States. Life Charlot was born in Paris. His father, Henri, owned an import-export business ...
(French 1898-1979),
Nicholas Chevalier Nicholas Chevalier (9 May 1828 – 15 March 1902) was a Russian-born artist who worked in Australia and New Zealand. Early life Chevalier was born in St Petersburg, Russia, the son of Louis Chevalier, who came from Vaud, Switzerland, and was o ...
(1828-1902),
Louis Choris Louis Choris (1795–1828) was a German-Russian painter and explorer.Louis Choris
. The B ...
(
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1795-1828),
Ernest William Christmas Ernest William Christmas (28 January 1863 – 29 July 1918) was an Australian painter, known primarily for his landscapes. Much of his later, most familiar work was done outside of Australia; in Europe, South America and, finally, Hawaii. Biog ...
( Australian 1863- 1918), Amelia R. Coats (American), Constance Fredericka Gordon Cumming ( Scottish 1837-1924), Robert Dampier (
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1800-1874), Stanislas-Henri-Benoit Darondeau ( French (1807-1841),
John La Farge John La Farge (March 31, 1835 – November 14, 1910) was an American artist whose career spanned illustration, murals, interior design, painting, and popular books on his Asian travels and other art-related topics. La Farge is best known for ...
(American 1835-1910), Ejler Andreas Jorgensen (
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1838-1876),
Georgia O'Keeffe Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American modernist artist. She was known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been called the "Mother of Ame ...
(American 1887-1986), Roi George Partridge (American 1888-1984), Ambrose McCarthy Patterson (Australian 1877-1967), Enoch Wood Perry, Jr. (American 1831-1915),
James Gay Sawkins James Gay Sawkins (1806–July 20, 1878) was an artist, geologist, copper miner, and illustrator. He was a member of the Geological Society of London who joined and led research during England's West Indian Geological Surveys of the islands of Tr ...
(British 1806-1878),
Eduardo Lefebvre Scovell Eduardo Lefebvre Scovell (1864–1918) was a British artist. He is one of the Volcano School, a group of non-native artists who painted dramatic nocturnal scenes of Hawaii's erupting volcanoes. Following his education at Eton College and the U ...
(English 1864-1918), Joseph Henry Sharp (American 1859-1953),
John Mix Stanley John Mix Stanley (January 17, 1814 – April 10, 1872) was an artist-explorer, an American painter of landscapes, and Native American portraits and tribal life. Born in the Finger Lakes region of New York, he started painting signs and portraits ...
(American 1814-1872), Joseph Dwight Strong (American 1852-1899), Augustus Vincent Tack (American 1870-1949), Adrien Taunay the younger (French 1803-1828), Jules Tavernier (French 1844-1889), William Pinkney Toler (American 1826-1899),
Hubert Vos Hubert Vos (February 15, 1855 – January 8, 1935) was a Dutch painter who was born Josephus Hubertus Vos in Maastricht. He studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels and with Fernand Cormon in Paris. He exhibited widely in Pa ...
(
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1855-1935),
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(American 1861-1933),
John Webber John Webber (6 October 1751 – 29 May 1793) was an English artist who accompanied Captain Cook on his third Pacific expedition. He is best known for his images of Australasia, Hawaii and Alaska. Biography Webber was born in London, educated ...
( Swiss-English 1752-1793) and
Theodore Wores Theodore Wores (August 1, 1859 – September 11, 1939) was an American painter born in San Francisco, son of Joseph Wores and Gertrude Liebke. His father worked as a hat manufacturer in San Francisco. Life Wores began his art training at age t ...
(American 1859-1939). Night scenes of erupting volcanoes were especially popular, giving rise to The Volcano School.


Art produced by Hawaiians and long-term residents

Artworks produced by Hawaii’s native born and long-term residents incorporating western materials and ideas include paintings on canvas and quilts. They may be distinctly Hawaiian in subject matter or as diverse as their places of origin. Most of the art currently produced in Hawaii falls into this third category. Notable artists in this category include sculptor
Satoru Abe Satoru Abe (born 13 June 1926) is a Japanese American sculptor and painter. Biography Abe was born in Moiliili, a district of Honolulu, Hawaii. He attended President William McKinley High School, where he took art lessons from Shirley Ximena ...
(born Hawaii 1926-), woodcarver Fritz Abplanalp (born Switzerland 1907-1982), sculptor
Bumpei Akaji Bumpei Akaji (1921–2002) was an American sculptor from Hawaii. He was known for welding large copper and brass sculptures which can be seen all over Hawaii as part of Hawaii's Art in Public Places program. Biography Akaji was born in Lawai, ...
(born Hawaii 1921-2002), Charles W. Bartlett (born
San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...
1860-1940), sculptor
Marguerite Louis Blasingame Marguerite Louis Blasingame Charles (1906–1947) was an American sculptor and painter. Born Marguerite Louis in Honolulu in 1906, she graduated from the University of Hawaii and went on to earn an M.A. in fine art from Stanford University in 1 ...
(born Hawaii 1906-1947), sculptor Edward M. Brownlee (born
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1929-),
Isami Doi Isami Doi (May 12, 1903 – November 29, 1965) was an American printmaker and painter. Biography Doi was the first son of Japanese immigrants, born in Ewa on the island of Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands in 1903. He moved with his family to th ...
(born Hawaii 1903-1965),
Paul Emmert Paul Emmert (1826–1867), who is also known as Paul Emert, was an artist born near Berne, Switzerland in 1826. He immigrated to New York City at age 19, where he rapidly became an established artist. He joined the gold rush to California in 18 ...
(born Switzerland 1826-1867),
Robert Lee Eskridge Robert Lee Eskridge (November 22, 1891 – April 14, 1975) was an American genre painter, muralist and illustrator. Biography He was born in Philipsburg, Pennsylvania, to Ella May Moore and Joshua Hargus Eskridge. Eskridge moved with his fam ...
(born
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1891-1975),
ceramicist Ceramic art is art made from ceramic materials, including clay. It may take forms including artistic pottery, including tableware, tiles, figurines and other sculpture. As one of the plastic arts, ceramic art is one of the visual arts. Wh ...
Sally Fletcher-Murchison (born Hawaii 1933-),
Cornelia MacIntyre Foley Cornelia MacIntyre Foley (January 31, 1909 – January 18, 2010) was an American painter from Hawaii. Biography Cornelia MacIntyre was born in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii on January 31, 1909. She began her art training under the first art ...
(born Hawaii 1909-), Juliette May Fraser (born Hawaii 1887-1983),
Charles Furneaux Charles Furneaux (1835–1913) was born in Boston and became a drawing instructor in that area. For many years he lived in the town of Melrose, Massachusetts. In 1880, Furneaux moved to Hawaii, where he cultivated the friendship of King Kalakau ...
(born
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1835-1913),
Hon Chew Hee Hon Chew Hee (1906 – 1993) was an American muralist, watercolorist and printmaker who was born in Kahului, on the Hawaiian island of Maui in 1906. He grew up in China, where he received his early training in Chinese brush painting. He r ...
(born Hawaii 1906-1993),
D. Howard Hitchcock David Howard Hitchcock (May 15, 1861 – January 1, 1943) was an American painter of the Volcano School, known for his depictions of Hawaii. Life David Howard Hitchcock was born May 15, 1861, in Hilo, Hawaii. Since his father was also named Da ...
(born Hawaii 1861-1943), Ogura Yonesuke Itoh (born Japan 1870-1940), Princess Kaiulani (born Hawaii 1875-1899), Herb Kawainui Kane (born
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1928-), John Melville Kelly (born California 1877-1962), sculptor Kate Kelly (1882-1964), Keichi Kimura (born Hawaii 1914-1988), Sueko Matsueda Kimura (born Hawaii 1912-),
John Ingvard Kjargaard John Ingvard Kjargaard (September 13, 1902 – July 31, 1992) was a Danish-American painter, printmaker and collage artist. Biography He was born at Herning, Denmark and moved to the United States at an early age. He studied art at Cooper Union ...
(born Denmark 1902),
Alan Leitner Alan Leitner is an American abstract artist. He was born in 1947 in an ethnically diverse section of Los Angeles. Alan was the middle of three children in a Jewish family. He received his B.S. in art in 1971 from Woodbury University in Los Ang ...
(born California 1947-), Huc-Mazelet Luquiens (born
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1881-1961), Genevieve Springston Lynch (born
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1891-1960), Alexander Samuel MacLeod (born
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1888-1956), Arman Tatéos Manookian (born Constantinople 1904-1931), Joseph Nawahi (born Hawaii 1842-1896), Ben Norris (born
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1910-2006), Brook Kapūkuniahi Parker (born Kahalu‘u, O‘ahu July 31, 1961- ),
Louis Pohl Louis Pohl (1915 – December 22, 1999) was an American painter, illustrator, art teacher, printmaker and cartoonist. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1915. A childhood illness made it impossible to walk without pain and prevented Pohl from en ...
(born Cincinnati 1915-1999), Shirley Ximena Hopper Russell (born
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1886-1985), sculptor
Mamoru Sato Mamoru Sato is an American modernist sculptor. He was born in El Paso, Texas in 1937. He initially majored in aeronautical engineering but switched to art, receiving a BA in fine art in 1963 and an MFA in sculpture in 1965, both from the Univer ...
(born
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1937-),
Tadashi Sato Tadashi Sato (February 6, 1923 – June 4, 2005) was an American artist. He was born in Kaupakalua on the Hawaiian island of Maui. His father had been a pineapple laborer, merchant, and calligrapher, and Tadashi's grandfather was a sumi-e ...
(born Hawaii 1954-2005), Lloyd Sexton, Jr. (born Hawaii 1912-1990), Alice Louise Judd Simpich (born Hawaii 1918-2006), ceramicist
Toshiko Takaezu Toshiko Takaezu (June 17, 1922 – March 9, 2011) was an American ceramic artist, painter, sculptor, and educator who was known for her rounded, closed forms that viewed ceramics as a fine art and more than a functional vessel. She is of Japan ...
(born Hawaii 1922-2011), Reuben Tam (born Hawaii 1916-1991),
Masami Teraoka Masami Teraoka (born 1936) is an American contemporary artist. His work includes ''Ukiyo-e''-influenced woodcut prints and paintings in watercolor and oil. He is known for work that merges traditional Edo-style aesthetics with icons of American cul ...
(born Japan 1936-), painter John Paul Thomas (born Alabama 1927-2001), Madge Tennent (born England 1889-1972),
William Twigg-Smith William Twigg-Smith (né Smith; November 2, 1883 – April 21, 1950) was a New Zealand-born painter, illustrator and musician, who lived most of his life in Hawaii. During World War I, he was one of the first artists to serve in the American Cam ...
(born
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1883-1950)
John Chin Young John Chin Young 容澤泉 (1909–1997) was a painter who was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on March 26, 1909. He was the son of Chinese immigrants and began drawing at the age of eight, stimulated by Chinese calligraphy, which he learned in Chin ...
(born Hawaii 1909-1997) Sculptor Jerry Vasconcellos (born Hawaii 1948 -), Art Photographer Kim Taylor Reece (1949-)


Selected works of native Hawaiian art

File:University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology., 19th Century.jpg, 19th-century native Hawaiian feather cape (ahuula),
University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, also known as MAA, at the University of Cambridge houses the university's collections of local antiquities, together with archaeological and ethnographic artefacts from around the world. The museum ...
File:Hawaiian Cape, 18th century; owl feathers tied on netting.jpg, Hawaiian Cape, 18th century;
pueo The pueo (''Asio flammeus sandwichensis'') is a subspecies of the short-eared owl and is endemic to Hawaii. The pueo is one of the more famous of the various physical forms assumed by '' aumākua'' (ancestor spirits) in Hawaiian culture. Pueo in ...
feathers tied on netting,
Honolulu Museum of Art The Honolulu Museum of Art (formerly the Honolulu Academy of Arts) is an art museum in Honolulu, Hawaii. 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 co ...
File:Ahulii (Feather Cape), Hawaiian Islands, late 18th–early 19th century, Iwi and oo feathers, olona, fiber, netting.jpg, Ahulii (feather cape), Hawaiian Islands, late 18th–early 19th century, iiwi and ōō, olonā fiber netting,
Honolulu Museum of Art The Honolulu Museum of Art (formerly the Honolulu Academy of Arts) is an art museum in Honolulu, Hawaii. 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 co ...
File:Hawaii, mantello con piume ahu ula, ante 1779.JPG, Ahu Ula cape with feathers, before 1779, Historisches Museum Bern File:Lei Hulu (Feather Lei), Hawaiian Islands, 19th century, Oo, iwi, and ou feathers.jpg, Lei Hulu (feather lei), Hawaiian Islands, 19th century, iiwi, ōō, and ōū feathers,
Honolulu Museum of Art The Honolulu Museum of Art (formerly the Honolulu Academy of Arts) is an art museum in Honolulu, Hawaii. 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 co ...
File:Hawaii, elmo con piume, ante 1779.JPG, Hawaiian helm in feathers, before 1779, Historisches Museum Bern File:Hawaii, casco mahiole, inizio del XIX sec 02.JPG, Mahiole helm, beginning of the 19th century, Musée du quai Branly, Paris File:Hawaii, casco mahiole, inizio del XIX sec 01.JPG, Mahiole helm, beginning of the 19th century, Musée du quai Branly, Paris File:Isole hawaii elmi crestati detti ellenici.jpg, Two crested helms called "Hellenic style", Museo di Storia Naturale, Florence File:Kamapua'a collage.jpg, wooden statue of Kamapuaa from the
Bailey House Museum Hale Hōʻikeʻike at the Bailey House (House of Display at Old Bailey House, formerly and commonly the Bailey House Museum) is a museum of Hawaiian history and art located in Wailuku, on the island of Maui, in Hawaii. It is owned and operated b ...
File:Akua Kaai (Stick Image), late 18th-early 19th century, 3316545237 6cb4975348 b.jpg, Akua Kaai (stick image), late 18th-early 19th century,
Honolulu Museum of Art The Honolulu Museum of Art (formerly the Honolulu Academy of Arts) is an art museum in Honolulu, Hawaii. 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 co ...
File:Ethnologisches Museum Dahlem Berlin Mai 2006 009.jpg, Probably the god of canoe carvers,
Ethnological Museum of Berlin The Ethnological Museum of Berlin (german: Ethnologisches Museum Berlin) is one of the Berlin State Museums (german: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin), the de facto national collection of the Federal Republic of Germany. It is presently located in ...
Image:Ku'u Hae Aloha (My Beloved Flag) Hawaiian cotton quilt from Maui, c. 1890s, Mission Houses Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii.jpg, Kuu Hae Aloha (My Beloved Flag) Hawaiian cotton
quilt A quilt is a multi-layered textile, traditionally composed of two or more layers of fabric or fiber. Commonly three layers are used with a filler material. These layers traditionally include a woven cloth top, a layer of padding, batting or w ...
from Maui, c. 1890s,
Mission Houses Museum The Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives Honolulu, Hawaii, was established in 1920 by the Hawaiian Mission Children's Society, a private, non-profit organization and genealogical society, on the 100th anniversary of the arrival of ...
, Honolulu, Hawaii File:Na Kihapai Nani Lua 'Ole O Edena a Me Elenale (The Beautiful Unequaled Gardens of Eden and of Elenale), Hawaiian cotton quilt, before 1918, Honolulu Academy of Arts.jpg, ''Na Kihapai Nani Lua Ole O Edena a Me Elenale'' (''The Beautiful Unequaled Gardens of Eden and of Elenale''), Hawaiian cotton quilt, before 1918,
Honolulu Museum of Art The Honolulu Museum of Art (formerly the Honolulu Academy of Arts) is an art museum in Honolulu, Hawaii. 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 co ...
File:Hawaiian kapa, 18th century, Cook-Foster Collection at Georg-August University in Göttingen, Germany.jpg, Hawaiian
kapa Kapa is a fabric made by native Hawaiians from the bast fibres of certain species of trees and shrubs in the orders Rosales and Malvales. Description and uses It is similar to ''tapa'' found elsewhere in Polynesia (the Hawaiian phoneme corr ...
, 18th century, Cook-Foster Collection at
University of Göttingen The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, (german: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, known informally as Georgia Augusta) is a public research university in the city of Göttingen, Germany. Founded ...
, Germany File:Hawaiian kapa (striped) Cook-Foster Collection at Georg-August University in Göttingen, Germany.jpg, Hawaiian
kapa Kapa is a fabric made by native Hawaiians from the bast fibres of certain species of trees and shrubs in the orders Rosales and Malvales. Description and uses It is similar to ''tapa'' found elsewhere in Polynesia (the Hawaiian phoneme corr ...
, 18th century, Cook-Foster Collection at
University of Göttingen The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, (german: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, known informally as Georgia Augusta) is a public research university in the city of Göttingen, Germany. Founded ...
, Germany File:Kapa Kilohana (Bark Cloth), nineteenth century.jpg, Kapa kilohana (bark cloth), Hawaii, 19th century,
Honolulu Museum of Art The Honolulu Museum of Art (formerly the Honolulu Academy of Arts) is an art museum in Honolulu, Hawaii. 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 co ...
File:Lei Niho Palaoa (Neck Ornament), 19th century, Carved sperm whale tooth, braided human hair, olona cordage.jpg,
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 ...
(Hawaiian neck ornament), 19th century, carved sperm whale tooth, braided human hair, olonā cordage,
Honolulu Museum of Art The Honolulu Museum of Art (formerly the Honolulu Academy of Arts) is an art museum in Honolulu, Hawaii. 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 co ...
File:'Iles Sandwich - Manier dont les Naturels se Tatouent' (Tattooing, Sandwich Islands) by Jacques Arago.jpg, Tattooing, Sandwich Islands by
Jacques Arago Jacques Étienne Victor Arago (6 March 1790 – 27 November 1855) was a French writer, artist and explorer, author of a ''Voyage Round the World''. Biography Jacques was born in Estagel, Pyrénées-Orientales. He was the brother of François Ara ...
,
Honolulu Museum of Art The Honolulu Museum of Art (formerly the Honolulu Academy of Arts) is an art museum in Honolulu, Hawaii. 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 co ...
File:Petroglyphs in Puako Petroglyph Archaeological District 1350.JPG, Petroglyph from the Puako Petroglyph Archaeological District File:Petroglyphs in Puako Petroglyph Archaeological District 1351.JPG, Petroglyph from the Puako Petroglyph Archaeological District


References

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Honolulu Academy of Arts The Honolulu Museum of Art (formerly the Honolulu Academy of Arts) is an art museum in Honolulu, Hawaii. 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 co ...
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External links


Honolulu Museum of Art

Bishop Museum

Kapa Hawaii(The Art of Native Hawaiian Kapa)

Cook-Foster Collection at University in Göttingen, Germany






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