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 ...

Sitting on a table in front of the framed painting is a model of a drua canoe, a Polynesian sailing boat. Similar boats are featured in the “Moana” films. The painting labels islands like ...