Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 7, Number 12, 1 December 1990 — On the cover -- Marie McDonald [ARTICLE]

On the cover -- Marie McDonald

Also honored at the Folklife Hawaii festival were Hawai'i recipients of the National Heritage Fellowship award, presented by the Nahonal Endowment for the Arts Folk Arts Program. Though Hawai'i is a small state, it has the second largest number of folk heritage award winners in the award's 10-year history.

This year's NEA award has been presented to lei-maker Marie McDonald. Previous NEA folk arts award winners were falsetto singer Clyde Sproat in 1988, slack key guitar player Ramond Kane in 1987, quilter Mealii Kalama in 1985, and kumu hula Kau'i Zuttermeister in 1984.