ʻUlu ʻIʻiwi, Original Oil Painting by Avi Kiriaty

Lele, original oil painting on canvas by Avi Kiriaty.

Dimensions: 36″ x 34″ unframed

ʻUlu: The breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis), a tree perhaps originating in Malaysia and distributed through tropical Asia and Polynesia. It belongs to the fig family, and is grown for its edible fruits, sometimes for ornament. The leaves are large, oblong, more or less lobed; fruits are round or oblong, weighing up to 4.5 kilos, when cooked tasting something like sweet potatoes.

ʻIʻiwi:Scarlet Hawaiian honey creeper (Vestiaria coccinea), found on all the main islands; its feathers were used extensively in feather work.