Polynesian Foundations
Name the four Polynesian cultures emphasized in the chapter.
What is Hawaii, Samoa, Maori, and Rapanu
What did cowrie shells represent on a Polynesian bamboo map?
What is islands
What is mana?
What is an impersonal, transferable spiritual or generative power that gives people and objects potency
What is tapa cloth made from?
What is the inner bark of the paper mulberry tree
What major contribution did Captain Cook make to European knowledge of the Pacific?
What is he charted large portions of the Pacific and created maps and records of the region
What three cultural characteristics do Polynesians share according to the chapter?
What is a common language, emphasis on genealogy, and a
highly developed aristocracy
Name two natural signs Polynesian navigators used to travel across the Pacific.
What is examples include stars, birds, bird migration, currents, and weather
What is tapu?
What is sacred restrictions and rules surrounding people or objects with great mana
What are tapa, kapa, and siapo?
What is regional names for Polynesian bark cloth
Why is Captain Cook's death presented as historically debated?
What is different sources and communities interpret the event differently
What geographic shape roughly describes Polynesia?
What is a triangle about 5,000 miles long, extending from Hawaii to Easter
Island to New Zealand
What did Captain James Cook create that allowed Europeans to return to Polynesia?
What is the first paper maps of the region
Who are ari'i, ali'i, or ariki?
What is hereditary Polynesian rulers or elites connected to ancestral spiritual power
What do kaona and heliaki mean?
What is indirect or hidden meaning in art and performance; kaona in Hawaii and heliaki in Tong
What Hawaiian festival is connected to one interpretation of Cook's death?
What is the Makahiki festival, associated with the god Lono
Name three levels in the pre-contact Polynesian social hierarchy.
What is Chiefs, Nobles, Priests, Warriors, Commoners, or Slaves
In what year was Captain Cook killed in Hawaii?
What is 1779
What three body parts are described as especially mana-laden?
What is the head, backbone, and genitals
How does Samoa's siapo-making process involve men as well as women?
What is men may carve pattern boards used as stencils; women apply designs and add freehand decoration
How do the videos complicate the idea that Europeans simply discovered Polynesia?
What is Polynesian societies already had established cultures, knowledge, and navigation systems; European maps recorded the region for European audiences.