Arts and Entertainment
Arts and Entertainment
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- Long Distance Interaction Documenting the scale, frequency and temporal duration of interaction is fundamental to understanding the evolution and transformation of prehistoric societies, and recent geochemical analyses of stone tools in Polynesia are challenging long-held beliefs that once settled, island cultures evolved in relative isolation.
- Na Keiki Polynesia: The Spirit of the South The spirit and art of Polynesian dance.
- Traditional Navigation in the Western Pacific University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
- The Lost Art of Lei making Lei making has become a lost art. Visit for history, how-to and pictures of authentic Hawaiian lei.
- Oceanic Arts and Books A gallery of tribal art and artifacts from the South Pacific. Including a library of over 1000 related rare and out of print books.
- The Tribal Arts Directory An exhaustive list of links related to Tribal Arts. Includes all major categories including African, Asian, Oceanic, Indonesian, Himalayan, North American, Northwest Coast, Pre-Columbian.
- Lee Kagan's Kava Page In the Pacific today, although some Islanders have abandoned its use, its traditional functions are being maintained and it is being developed into an important cash crop.
- Mundo Etnico Foundation Dutch non-profit organization promotes dance cultures from the South Pacific islands.
- Human Colonisation and Extinction at the Margins of Polynesia Most islands of Polynesia were settled by A. D. 1000, and inter-island voyaging was a vital link sustaining small populations on isolated landfalls. More than a dozen ecologically-marginal islands found throughout the eastern Pacific have records of prehistoric settlement, but were abandoned by the time of European contact.
- Tahiti Link to the Art and Artists of Polynesia An exposition of the Art and Artists in Polynesia, including photography, dance, sculpture, painting and creativity of all kinds
- Polynesian Voyaging Society (PVS) PVS was founded in 1973 as an organization to research the means by which Polynesian seafarers discovered and settled nearly every inhabitable island in the Pacific Ocean before European explorers found the ocean in the 16th century.
- Pacific Islands Association of Libraries and Archives (PIALA) Conferences and proceedings, newsletters, and membership information. A professional association based in Guam.
- culture.co.nz This site's purpose is to become an extensive resource for research on the Internet concerning the people and cultures of the Pacific, beginning with the host culture of the Maori of Aotearoa.
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