Rapa Nui Journal Volume 12 Issue 2

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    Websites & Conferences
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    Publications
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    EIF News
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    Easter Island Foundation News

    Books for Sale!

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    De de Piques 1934-1935. Expedjtjon Metraux-Lavachery, 1995
    (1998-01-01) Bahn, Paul G.

    De de Piques 1934-1935. Expedjtjon Metraux-Lavachery, 1995 ISBN: 2-930157-00-3. Hardback, 95 pages 950 Belgian Francs (approx. $26). Buch Edition, Rue F. Marjay 101, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium. Tel: 32-2-343-5270.

    Review by Paul G. Bahn

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    Bali Handbook, Second Edition 1997 (Review)
    (1998-01-01) Lee, Georgia

    Bali Handbook, SecondEdition (1997) by Bill Dalton Black/white photos and line drawings, 750 pages, 135 maps; $19.95 Moon Travel Handbooks, Chico, CA email: sbooth@moon.com

    Review by Georgia Lee

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    Two Books on Rongorongo! (Book Review)
    (1998-01-01) Bahn, Paul G.

    Rongorongo: The Easter Island Script. History, Traditions, Texts by Steven Roger Fischer. Oxford University Press, 1997. 714 pp. 0-19-823710-3 £90 / $115.

    Glyphbreaker by Steven Roger Fischer Copernicus, New York, 1997. 234 pp. 0-387-98241-8 £15.50/$ 25.

    Reviews by Paul G. Hahn

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    Letters
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    Letters to the editor

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    News and Notes
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    Moai Sightings

    What's New in Hanga Roa

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    Kites in Polynesia: Replicative Experiments and Hawaiian Petroglyphs
    (1998-01-01) Henry, L.L. (Bud)

    Kites and the flying of kites were important in Polynesia. In New Zealand, kites were not only for play but were used in ritualistic magic, being flown for divination purposes by priests (Barrow 1984: 103), and it is said that Tawhaki ascended into the sky world by means of a kite. In Mangaia (Cook Islands), the god Rongo was the patron of kite flying (Poignant 1967:66). Similar stories are found elsewhere in Polynesia, and kites made of tapa cloth with painted bird heads (manu hakarere) are cited from Easter Island (Metraux 1971 :353).

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    Palmerston Island: End of the "British Ariki"?
    (1998-01-01) Fischer, Steven Roger

    Almost lost in Polynesia's vast expanses are two very small but special islands whose inhabitants, at least in historical times, from birth have spoken either only English or a hybrid English-Polynesian idiom. Renowned is, of course, Pitcairn Island, whose remnant population to a large degree can still claim descent from the infamous eighteenth-century mutineers of HMS Bounty and their Tahitian companions. Nearly unknown to the world, on the other hand, is the fascinating story of Palmerston Island in the Cook archipelago.

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    Archaeological Art on Mo'orea, French Polynesia: an Overview
    (1998-01-01) Millerstrom, Sidsel; Baumgartner, Heidy

    Aside from Roger C. Green's pioneering settlement pattern archaeology carried out in the Opunahu Valley in the early 1960s (Green 1961a; 1961b; Green et al. 1967; Green and Decantes n.d.), followed by Dana Lepofsky's (1994) work on prehistoric agricultural intensification in the same valley in 1991, no systematic survey has been undertaken on Mo'orea. Generally, archaeological inquiry has been limited to documentation and analysis of the elite architecture that is visible on the surface (e.g., Emory n.d., 1933; Decantes 1993; Wallin 1993).