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Kahili Workshop

Created by Uncle Wes (See other events)
  • Jul 16, 2010 at 11:00pm to Jul 18, 2010 at 3:00am
  • Location: Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden, Captain Cook, HI
  • Latest Activity: Jul 30, 2021
The teachers are mother and daughter, Lucia and Natalie Jensen of Kea‘au. The cost, which includes registration and materials for both days, is $60 for Bishop Museum members, $70 non-members. 9 a.m to 1 p.m 7/17 and /18Kahili are symbols of royalty. Some were very large, with staffs up to 30 feet on which were feather cylinders 18 inches in diameter and 12 to 14 feet long. David Malo wrote “Where the king went, there went his kahili bearer; and where he stopped, there stopped also the kahili bearer.”Natalie Jensen is an expert feather artist. Her mother, Lucia Jensen, is a well known historian of traditional Hawaiian arts. They have had 12 major exhibitions and have taught numerous workshops on Kahili both in Hawai‘i and on the mainland. The workshop encompasses the esoteric history of the Kahili plus the construction of a hand-held example.
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