ID's: Pacific

Question 1

Answer 1

Nan Madol

• Pohnpei, Micronesia
• Saudeleur Dynasty
• 700-1600 C.E.
• Basalt boulders and prismatic columns

Question 2

Answer 2

Moai on platform (ahu)

• Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
• 1100-1600 C.E.
• Volcanic tuff figures on basalt base

Question 3

Answer 3

‘Ahu ‘ula (feather cape)

• Hawaiian
• Late 18th century C.E.
• Feathers and fiber

Question 4

Answer 4

Staff god

• Rarotonga
• Cook Islands, central Polynesia
• Late 18th to early 19th century C.E.
• Wood, tapa, fiber, and feathers

Question 5

Answer 5

Contextual image: Staff God

Question 6

Answer 6

Female Deity

• Nukuoro, Micronesia
• 18th to 19th century C.E.
• Wood

Question 7

Answer 7

Buk (mask)

• Torres Strait
• Mid-to late 19th century C.E.
• Turtle shell, wood, fiber, feathers, and shell

Question 8

Answer 8

Hiapo (tapa)

• Niue
• 1850-1900 C.E.
• Tapa or bark cloth
• freehand painting

Question 9

Answer 9

Tamati Waka Nene

• Gottfried Lindauer
• 1890 C.E.
• Oil on canvas

Question 10

Answer 10

Navigation chart

• Marshall Islands, Micronesia
• 19th to early 20th century C.E.
• Wood and fiber
• (goldworthy)

Question 11

Answer 11

Malagan display and mask

• New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea
• 20th century C.E.
• Wood, pigment, fiber, and shell

Question 12

Answer 12

Presentation of Fijian mats and tapa cloths to Queen Elizabeth II

• Fiji, Polynesia
• 1953 C.E.
• During the 1953-4 royal tour
• Multimedia performance (costume; cosmetics, including scent; chant; movement; and pandanus fiber/hibiscus fiber mats)
• Photographic documentation