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Kēhaulani Metke-Arakaki (Native Hawaiian) x
Kēhaulani is a Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian), Japanese, Okinawan, Chinese and Caucasian artist and scientist, born and raised on the island of Oʻahu. Kēhau is a hula and ʻori (tahitian) dancer, lei maker and featherwork artist. She creates handmade, modern feather flowers in the Native Hawaiian traditional technique of lei hulu (feather lei). Ka Pua Hulu, meaning “the feather flower” in ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi (the Hawaiian language), is a small business she created to share aloha and Hawaiian culture with others while sharing her one-of-a-kind feather flower wearable art. Having grown up in Hawaiʻi and now living on Coast Salish lands, this business has been an opportunity for her to practice Hawaiian culture through art while also being an outlet to learn and teach different aspects of Hawaiian history, language and culture.
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Shoreline, WA