Pacific Vocabulary
cloth made from the bark of the paper mulberry tree, used in the Pacific islands.
What is tapa?
Two materials used to make the capes known as ‘Ahu ‘ula
What are feathers and fiber?
Material for the portrait of Tamti Waka Nene
What oil on canvas?
Home to the Moai
Where is Easter Island?
Coral eyes were thought to envoke the protective power of these representations of ancestors.
What are the moai?
a generalized, supernatural force or power, which may be concentrated in objects or persons.
What is Mana?
Ta moko tattoos in Maori culture functioned to display these two things.
What is convey a person’s lineage and social status?
Navigational Charts are made of these two materials
What are wood and fiber?
Place to hula with the Ahu'ula
Where is Hawaii?
He painted the image of his subject 20 years after his death.
Who is Gottfried Lindauer?
These large stones that resembled the head of a man caused the society which created them to run out of resources.
What are Moai?
The compound of Nan Madol was made of these columnar shapes quarried nearby.
What are prismatic columns?
Buk mask material
Turtle shell, wood, fiber, feathers and shell
Navigation Charts help residents chart around these islands.
What are the Marshall Islands?
This piece was concerned with dismissing and honoring the dead
What is the Malagan mask?
Red volcanic objects placed on top of some moai statues on Easter Island.
What are top knots or PUKAO?
Staff deities were criticized for their overt sexuality and destroyed by these people.
Who are European Missionaries?
Medium category for the Presentation of Fijian mats and tapa cloth to Queen Elizabeth II.
What is Photographic Documentation?
The Malagan display and mask called this island home.
Where is Papua New Guinea?
Used to celebrate death, fertility, or male initiation, the Buk mask combined these two attributes.
What is animal and human?
traditional mask made by the natives in the province of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.
What is a tatanua mask?
Basalt was used to build Nan Madol because of this
What is broke into columnar shapes?
Moai on platform materials
What are volcanic tuff figures on basalt base?
Nan Madol rests on its coral reef.
What is Pohnpei, Micronesia?
Comprised of temples, burial vaults and meeting houses, Nan Madol was created to serve as these two things.
What are the political and religious capitol?