About Koops2
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Sig Zane is a fisherman, surfer, dancer, artist and cultural practitioner. You’ll see these elements in every Sig Zane Design. A native of O’ahu, he moved to Hilo seeking an unhurried life and became a student of Hawaiian culture in the mid-1970′s. He joined Hilo’s Halau O Kekuhi in 1981, and his immersion in hula formed the core of his understanding of the plants of Hawai’i and their uses in Hawaiian culture. Under teachers Edith Kanaka’ole and her daughters, Nalani Kanaka’ole and Pua Kanahele, he learned that hula and the natural world are inseparable.
From Sig’s marriage to Nalani sprang the first of Sig Zane’s designs: pareus. First in pareus he made for Nalani, then in the pareus and T-shirts he made for his friends and his hula family, the images he chose had a cultural significance and deep meaning. Before long, Sig’s images of taro, hala, ‘ie’ie, kukui, and other plants valued by the Hawaiians had become a Hawai’i signature.
