Herb Kawainui Kane

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, Hawaiokinai, and Wisconsin. His art and articles have appeared in locations such as the Hawaiokinai 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."cite web |url= http://www.pbs.org/wayfinders/ask.html |title= Ask The Experts |author= Public Broadcasting Service |work= [http://www.pbs.org/wayfinders/about.html Wayfinders: A Pacific Odyssey] |date= 1998 |quote= ] He is the author of "Pele, Goddess of Volcanoes" (1987), "Voyagers" (1991), and "Ancient Hawaiokinai" (1997).

In 1984, Kane was elected a "Living Treasure of Hawaiokinai". 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 Hawaiokinai Book Publishers Association Award for Excellence in Book Publishing.

References

* Radford, Georgia and Warren Radford, "Sculpture in the Sun, Hawaii's Art for Open Spaces", University of Hawaii Press, 1978, 21, 94.