HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Hawaiian word of the day is Ku. Ku is one of the four major Hawaiian gods in the Aikapu system. Ku is considered to be the god of warfare and woodcarving. Coconut is one ...
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Earlier this month, a wooden carving of the Hawaiian god of war fetched $7.5 million at a Christie's auction in Paris. The huge price tag, twice what curators expected, made ...
A piece of ancient Hawaiian history has made its way back home. A carved wooden kii, which depicts the Hawaiian god Ku, previously belonged to Claude Verite, an art dealer based in Paris. It had been ...
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Staff quietly trickle into a granite-floored atrium in the Peabody Essex Museum’s elegant new wing. They mill about, hushed and excited, waiting to see an imposing, larger-than-life carving known as ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- A 200-year-old carving of the war god Ku has returned home to Hawaii after spending untold years abroad and in the hands of private collectors. Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff ...
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