Ola'a Beauty Lei is a photograph by Heidi Fickinger which was uploaded on September 9th, 2020.
Ola'a Beauty Lei
This beautiful lei is made from Ola'a beauty flowers, also known as the nanioola'a flower. A friend of mine is a master lei maker who makes both... more
Title
Ola'a Beauty Lei
Artist
Heidi Fickinger
Medium
Photograph - Photographic Print
Description
This beautiful lei is made from Ola'a beauty flowers, also known as the nanioola'a flower. A friend of mine is a master lei maker who makes both famous ni'ihou shell leis and flower leis. A native of Hawai'i with Hawaiian and Chinese heritage, he was taught his lei making skills by his aunties and has the skills of days past in his work.
The flowers of this lei are thought be a hybrid of native violet flowers and an old garden flower of past generations that may have been brought to the Islands in the 1800s, Torenia fournieri. Torenia fournieri is native to Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. Stories say that the Ola'a had naturalized on the Big Island and these flowers were found (growing wild) in the fields of Ola’a (near Hilo) and were frequently picked during horseback-riding excursions to adorn their hair or hats. Eventually the flowers were made into now famous leis.
Featured in the following FAA group galleries:
* Flower on Green
* Experimental Artist Union
Uploaded
September 9th, 2020
