EditorialAn index to the islands of the Pacific Ocean: a handbook to the chart on the walls of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop museum of Polynesian ethnology and natural history : Brigham, William T. (William Tufts), 1841-1926.
EditorialFisherman's God, Polynesian, (late 18th- early 19th?).The short, squat figure is a typical example of the so-called "fisherman's god", mounted at the front of ebery fishing canoe on Rarotonga, one of the Cook islands in the South Pacific.The wood carve...
EditorialGold medal of Captain James Cook. Chosen as captain of the "Endeavour" by the Royal Society, he found and chartered New Zealand and the East Coast of Australia. In two more voyages, Cook discovered several islands in the Pacific, but was murdered by th...
EditorialPortrait of a Polynesian woman. Captain Cook's Voyages. Third voyage, 1776-1780: Thirty colored drawings and views, by J. Webber. 1776-1780. Source: Add. 15513, no.12.
EditorialMan of Easter island. Drawn from nature by William Hodges and engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi. Head and sholders frontal portrait of a Polynesian man of Easter Island (Rapanui). He is shown with a feathered headdress, a cloak around his shoulders and ...
EditorialSquale Maou. The oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus). Lesson named the shark Squalus maou after a Polynesian word for "shark". . Voyage autour du monde, exécuté par ordre du Roi, sur la corvette de Sa Majesté la Coquille, pendant les a...
EditorialPolynesian weapons and costume . The history of mankind / Trans from the second German edited by A. J. Butler. v. 3, 1898. [S.l.] : Macmillan, 1896-1898. Source: 572*3343* vol I, plate before page 155. Language: English.
EditorialTahitian Women Bathing, 1892, Oil on paper, laid down on canvas, 43 3/4 x 35 1/8 in, Paintings, Paul Gauguin (French, Paris 1848?1903 Atuona, Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands), Dreaming of a paradise where he could ?listen to the silence of beautiful tropica...
EditorialEaster Island, called Rapa Nui by its Polynesian in-habitants, is a volcanic island 3,790 kms west of the Chilean coast. In the far background the village of Hanga Roa, the only settlement on the island with roughly 3.000 inhabitants.
EditorialGold medal of Captain James Cook. Chosen as captain of the "Endeavour" by the Royal Society, he found and chartered New Zealand and the East Coast of Australia. In two more voyages, Cook discovered several islands in the Pacific, but was murdered by th...
EditorialFisherman's God, Polynesian, (late 18th- early 19th?).The short, squat figure is a typical example of the so-called "fisherman's god", mounted at the front of ebery fishing canoe on Rarotonga, one of the Cook islands in the South Pacific.The wood carve...