Herb Kawainui Kane
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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, Hawai‘i, and Wisconsin. His art and articles have appeared in locations such as the Hawai‘i 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.
He is the author of Pele, Goddess of Volcanoes (1987), Voyagers (1993), and Ancient Hawai‘i (1997).
In 1984, Kane was elected a "Living Treasure of Hawai‘i". 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 Hawai‘i Book Publishers Association Award for Excellence in Book Publishing.