| 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.
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| Traditional Navigation in the Western Pacific - Covers the role, techniques, and tools of the Carolinian navigator. From the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
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| Polynesian Voyaging Society - Learn how Polynesians explored and settled the Pacific long before Europeans even discovered it. See two ancient canoe replicas, the Hokule'a and Hawai'iloa sailing to retrace migration routes and to preserve ancestral skills.
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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.
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| 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.
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| Oceanic Arts & Books - Specializing in the ethnology of the South Pacific with a large collection of fine artifacts from Australia, Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia, and Indonesia. Library includes over 1000 related Rare and Out-of-Print books relating to Tribal Art. Discussion forum.
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| 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
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| Mundo Etnico Foundation - Dutch non profit organization promotes dance cultures from the South Pacific islands, including Samoa, Hawaii, Cook Islands, Rapanui, Tonga, Tuvalu, New Zealand, Fiji.
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| Pacific Islands Association of Libraries and Archives (PIALA) - Conferences and proceedings, newsletters, and membership information. A professional association based in Guam.
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| Na Keiki Polynesia: The Spirit of the South - The spirit and art of Polynesian dance.
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| Australian Art Auction Records, including New Zealand - Online database, available via subscription.
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