Mauna Kea Galleries

Mauna Kea Galleries offers a full range of services, including the buying and selling of valuable and collectible Hawaiian and Polynesian art, antiques, and ephemera. Mauna Kea Galleries is located in Honolulu, Hawaii, and also maintains an easily navigable website, which allows interested users to buy or sell Hawaii and Polynesian pieces. For more information or to make a purchase, visit www.maunakeagalleries.com.

Art lovers are pleased with the extensive collection of Hawaiian and Polynesian vintage paintings, sculptures, and artifacts offered by Mauna Kea Galleries. Mauna Kea Galleries features artifacts from a wide range of fields; the collection encompasses weaponry, tools, historical documents, furniture, jewelry, and attire. The artwork exhibited, purchased, and sold at Mauna Kea Galleries includes works by Madge Tennent, D. Howard Hitchcock, Jules Tavernier, Lionel Walden, and John Kelly.

In addition to the abundance of fine art, Mauna Kea Galleries also showcases vintage travel items of historical significance, such as posters, menus from renowned resorts, and Hula dolls.

Mauna Kea Galleries proudly exhibits early editions of major literary canons and rare texts by authors such as Isabella Bird, Captain Cook, and Margaret Mead.

Mauna Kea Galleries was established in 1995 by art lover and island art enthusiast, Carolyn Blackburn. Carolyn Blackburn’s husband, Mark Blackburn, is a renowned author of bestselling books on Hawaii and Polynesia, such as Hawaiiana: The Best of Hawaiian Design, Surf's Up, and Hula Girls and Surfer Boys. A senior certified appraiser with over 30 years of experience, Mark Blackburn also serves as one of the Gallery’s art procurers, and he is well acquainted with the art of the region. Mark Blackburn has conducted appraisals for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Mission Houses and the Bishop Museums in Honolulu.

As founder, Carolyn Blackburn has built Mauna Kea Galleries into a world-famous destination for Hawaiian and Polynesian art and artifacts. Most recently, Mauna Kea Galleries acquired several rare stone items, including a pre-contact Hawaiian basalt plummet sinker (known as pohakialoa), a Hawaiian Game Stone (Ulumaika), an 18th century Hawaiian awa pounder, and a ring pounder from the 18th century native to the island of Kauai (pohaku puka ku‘i poi).