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Native Hawaiian Christmas Wreath
Posted: December 22, 2007
I was thrilled when Brian Choy asked me to photograph a Christmas wreath he created that could have been made in old Hawaii. It is made entirely with native and Polynesian-introduced flowers and foliage.
Brian Choy has been making exquisite leis and wreaths since the mid-1970′s.
This wreath is made with material available to the Hawaiians prior to the discovery of the Hawaiian Islands by the West. It is made with: (1) red lehua flowers, buds, and calyxes (2) red ti leaves, (3) green koa leaves, (4) green ohia leaves, (5) green ulei leaves, and (6) green ti leaves.
Here is a photo of the same native Hawaiian Christmas wreath but from a different more oblique angle.
Mele Kalikimaka me ka Hau’oli Makahiki Hou!