Done with a tattoo machine, the modern tats are the ones people are probably most familiar with as they’re part of many Polynesian cultures and can be done on many parts of the body. Every ...

When the Southeast Asian sailors started out on their odyssey they were not yet identifiably Polynesian. Only after many years of learning how to voyage long distances, and to survive on the high ...

A Norwegian adventurer, followed by a New Zealand historian, burst into the otherwise quiet arena of Polynesian studies with pronouncements that the generally accepted ideas about origins and ...

Its body—most of it a muscular foot—is bumpy ... two. In 1967, the French Polynesian government allowed the giant African land snail to be imported and used as a human food source on islands ...