Polynesian Society information

The Polynesian Society is a non-profit organisation based at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, dedicated to the scholarly study of the history,...

The indigenous people who inhabit the islands of Polynesia are called Polynesians. They have many things in common, including language relatedness, cultural...

The Polynesian Voyaging Society (PVS) is a non-profit research and educational corporation based in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. PVS was established to research...

Proto-Polynesian, the linguistic ancestor of all modern Polynesian languages. After that period of shared development, the Proto-Polynesian society split...

Polynesian navigation or Polynesian wayfinding was used for thousands of years to enable long voyages across thousands of kilometres of the open Pacific...

Polynesians are an ethnolinguistic group of closely related ethnic groups who are native to Polynesia (islands in the Polynesian Triangle), an expansive...

archipelagos in the Polynesian Triangle) together with those of the scattered cultures known as the Polynesian outliers. Polynesians speak languages that...

Polynesian culture is the culture of the indigenous peoples of Polynesia who share common traits in language, customs and society. The development of...

The Polynesian Triangle is a region of the Pacific Ocean with three island groups at its corners: The US state of Hawaii, Easter Island (Rapa Nui) and...

central-eastern Polynesian islands, which include the Marquesas and the Society Islands, petroglyphs are more numerous. They show the archetypal Polynesian motifs...

too-VAH-loo), formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is an island country in the Polynesian subregion of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean, about midway between Hawaii...

Polynesian outliers are a number of culturally Polynesian societies that geographically lie outside the main region of Polynesian influence, known as...

Islands begins with the colonization of the islands by Polynesians in the 11th century. Polynesian people established a culture that flourished for four...

Missionary Society, 1795-1895. Vol. 1. H. Frowde, London. Maude, H. E. (1963). "The Evolution of the Gilbertese Boti". The Journal of the Polynesian Society. 72...

The Polynesian Dog refers to a few extinct varieties of domesticated dogs from the islands of Polynesia. These dogs were used for both companionship and...

The Polynesian Panther Party (PPP) was a revolutionary social justice movement formed to target racial inequalities carried out against indigenous Māori...

the Marquesas Islands in about 200 BC. The Polynesians later ventured southwest and discovered the Society Islands around AD 300. European encounters...

The Polynesian rat, Pacific rat or little rat (Rattus exulans), known to the Māori as kiore, is the third most widespread species of rat in the world behind...

counting was shown to be an extension of a traditional Polynesian method of counting. Polynesian societies are known to count specific types of objects differently...

Polynesian multihull terminology, such as "ama", "aka" and "vaka" (or "waka") are multihull terms that have been widely adopted beyond the South Pacific...

variations thereof. This refers to the cloud formations which helped early Polynesian navigators find the country. Beginning in the late 20th century, Aotearoa...

from the body by incantations was the "hau". In some societies, the tattoo marks on the Polynesian's face indicated their cult. A spiral symbol meant that...

'sky-bursters'? A Eurocentric projection onto Polynesia", Journal of the Polynesian Society, 108, 4: 417–425. Stair, John B., n.d. [c. 1897]. Old Samoa or Flotsam...

corner of the Polynesian Triangle on Easter Island. There were in essence three castes on the Society Islands: the nobility (Polynesian: ari´i or ariki)...

national team. Saelua is a faʻafafine, a third gender present in Polynesian society. She is the first openly non-binary and trans woman to compete in...

Journal of the Polynesian Society, 72 (Supplement), pp. 1–68. Maude, H.E. (1964). Beachcombers and Castaways, Journal of the Polynesian Society, 73, pp. 254–293...