ʻŌiwi artist Herb Kāne’s rendering of a waʻa kaulua double-hulled voyaging canoe carries chiefly Polynesian families to Hawaiʻi. Kāne famously designed the modern day Hōkūleʻa double-hulled voyaging canoe that has carried Kānaka ʻŌiwi throughout Polynesia and around the world.
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