Hawaiian Accessories

They are trading in illegal ivory and black coral. PLEASE don’t buy from them and support this indecent and illegal activity.

Hawaiian Accessories’ owner and four other employees were indicted in June on 21 charges of violating the Endangered Species Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act, and the Lacey Act (which addresses wildlife trafficking). These guys are traffickers of whale bone, elephant ivory, and walrus ivory. Give your business to somebody who’s not a despicable criminal.

This little kiosk has some high quality Hawaiian jewelry at a reasonable price. One of the dweeb salesman was annoyingly bothersome. I guess being aggressive with Japanese customers work, but someone should tell him to lay off the American customers. I guess I look Japanese. Idiot. Having said that, it does have some nice stuff and you could spend some time here figuring out what you eventually want to buy. I didn’t purchase anything because of the dweeb. I’ll come back on the next trip and hope he ain’t there.

I stopped by this kiosk in Ala Moana Center in search of locally made Hawaiian souvenirs. I’m glad I met Mindy, the manager — she was incredibly knowledgeable about the history and role of koa wood in Hawai’i and the accessories made by the owner. Even if you don’t see anything you want to buy, you should definitely stop by for a lesson on the significance of koa wood (only found in Hawai’i & its reflective «flash point» characteristics), the fish hook necklaces, and the preciously tiny & colorful shells from the forbidden island of Niihau in their glass display case! They have a wide variety of products, the strangest of which were «butt stoppers» — wooden door stoppers in the shape of… butts. HAHAHA! Anyway, I enjoyed looking at all the different pieces and purchased a koa bracelet and a koa & river pearl necklace for myself. Thanks Mindy & Hawaiian Accessories for letting me take a piece of Hawai’i with me back to the mainland :)
Also, their website has much more interesting info on koa wood than Wikipedia:
And also according to their website they have 3 other locations on Kalakaua Ave /​Waikiki area. Go check them out!