{"title":"The script of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) is logosyllabic, the language is East Polynesian: evidence from cross-readings","authors":"A. Davletshin","doi":"10.15286/jps.131.2.185-220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15286/jps.131.2.185-220","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45869,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Polynesian Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88487308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Celebrating Adrienne L. Kaeppler (1935–2022)","authors":"J. Huntsman","doi":"10.15286/jps.131.2.107-112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15286/jps.131.2.107-112","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45869,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Polynesian Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78853084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Historical Analysis of Waka Unua and the Māori Sail","authors":"Atholl Anderson","doi":"10.15286/jps.131.1.33-70","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15286/jps.131.1.33-70","url":null,"abstract":"Waka unua, Māori ‘double-hulled canoes’ with rudimentary Oceanic spritsails, have long been considered the most devolved of sailing vessels in East Polynesia, compared to an assumed sophistication of voyaging canoes in the prehistoric colonising era. This traditionalist or conventional hypothesis is discussed with reference to early historical data from New Zealand, including both written descriptions and drawings, according to the conviction that neither is intrinsically more reliable or informative than the other. Analysis of these sources, particularly those that refer to the Moutohorā (Bay of Plenty) canoe observed in 1769, does not support the conventional model. Instead of expedient construction, waka unua hulls were built to a New Zealand-wide pattern. Similarly, instead of an Oceanic spritsail, the Māori sail was an Oceanic double spritsail which had independent spars rather than a fixed mast. It was deployed before the wind and struck in reaching conditions. There is no plausible historical evidence of the Oceanic spritsail or lateen in New Zealand before the 1820s and it is argued that the Oceanic double spritsail was the only sailing rig used in pre-European New Zealand. Some inferences for understanding early East Polynesian voyaging are noted.","PeriodicalId":45869,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Polynesian Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75931990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ballantyne, Tony, Lachy Paterson and Angela Wanhalla (eds): Indigenous Textual Cultures: Reading and Writing in the Age of Global Empire","authors":"Felicity Barnes","doi":"10.15286/jps.131.1.93-95","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15286/jps.131.1.93-95","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45869,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Polynesian Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76449137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Weaving Cloaks and Whakataukī: A Memoir","authors":"Joan Metge","doi":"10.15286/jps.131.1.7-32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15286/jps.131.1.7-32","url":null,"abstract":"Beginning with holiday work in the ethnology workroom at Auckland War Memorial Museum, the author, a social anthropologist, traces the development of her lifelong interest and involvement in the Māori art of weaving harakeke ‘Māori flax’ (Phormium tenax). Special attention is given to the weaving of whatu ‘ceremonial cloaks’ and the weaving of words and metaphors in whakataukī ‘proverbs and sayings’, poetry and storytelling. In the process she shares treasured memories of learning, from and with Māori friends and mentors expert in these arts, and emphasises the continual interweaving of contemporary transformations with inherited traditions in response to changing times.","PeriodicalId":45869,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Polynesian Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85301772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mark D. McCoy, Jesse Casana, A. Hill, E. J. Laugier, T. Ladefoged
{"title":"Mapping Ancient Architecture via Unpiloted Aerial Vehicle–acquired LiDAR: A Case Study of Hōlualoa Royal Centre, Kona District, Hawai‘i Island","authors":"Mark D. McCoy, Jesse Casana, A. Hill, E. J. Laugier, T. Ladefoged","doi":"10.15286/jps.131.1.71-92","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15286/jps.131.1.71-92","url":null,"abstract":"At present there is no systematic record of the size, form or density of architecture at Hawaiian royal centres. We report on the results of a UAV LiDAR survey of one of the best-preserved examples of a royal centre in the archipelago: Hōlualoa Royal Centre, Kona District, Hawai‘i Island. The resolution of our data (0.3–0.1 m) is far superior to previous airborne LiDAR surveys (1.0 m); however, several factors, including thick understory vegetation, made resolving archaeological targets challenging. We nonetheless were able measure the volume of building material of the largest features, which allows us to compare structures in this royal centre with other monuments in the region. This study highlights the advantages, and limitations, of UAV LiDAR as well as the need for more high-quality quantitative data on architecture at royal centres.","PeriodicalId":45869,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Polynesian Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78547476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Young, M. Amoamo, M. Gibbs, Alexander Mawyer, J. Nash, Tillman W. Nechtman, Pauline Reynolds
{"title":"When margins are centres: de-ranging Pitcairn Island’s place in Pacific scholarship","authors":"A. Young, M. Amoamo, M. Gibbs, Alexander Mawyer, J. Nash, Tillman W. Nechtman, Pauline Reynolds","doi":"10.15286/jps.130.3.197-226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15286/jps.130.3.197-226","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45869,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Polynesian Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85000224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lū sipi: a marker of Tongan distinction","authors":"L. Neill, Elizabeth Toloke","doi":"10.15286/jps.130.3.227-244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15286/jps.130.3.227-244","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45869,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Polynesian Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80701370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Robert Carl Suggs and the transformation of Pacific archaeology: a retrospective view","authors":"P. Kirch","doi":"10.15286/jps.130.3.257-266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15286/jps.130.3.257-266","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45869,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Polynesian Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73882071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}