The top lot of the auction is this Kona style Hawaiian figure from a period between 1780 and 1820. It represents the god of war, ku ka 'ili moku, and Christie's expects it to fetch 2 to 3 million ...

Estes learned the intricate art of lei-making from her grandmother or "Tutu," and published a book called "Lei Aloha" to celebrate her traditions. "She was very intentional.

A carved wooden kii, which depicts the Hawaiian god Ku, previously belonged to Claude Verite, an art dealer based in Paris. It had been passed down from his father, who reportedly got it in the 1940s.

As long ago as 450 A.D., the first Hawaiian ancestors migrated to the Hawaiian islands bringing with them plants in their canoes. Known as a canoe plant, one of those was the kalo. Despite that it ...

Winter Art Preview: Twentieth-Century Rebels and Polynesian Gods Artisans from Fiji to Hawaii, at the Met; Abstract Expressionism, at the Met Breuer; Robert Mapplethorpe, at the Guggenheim; and more.