At first glance, this huge mural of a man with an orange face and hat at the corners of Pohukaina and Cooke Streets in Honolulu’s warehouse district looks curious. This is Tūhoe Pōtiki, a distant relative of Hawaiians who migrated to New Zealand over 1,000 years ago. There are approximately 35,000 in the Tūhoe tribe today. Many of them struggle because of land restrictions. This urban art was painted by Askew in 2013.
