Rapa Nui Journal Volume 15 Issue 1

The Continuum Encyclopedia of Native Art: Worldview, Symbolism & Culture in Africa, Oceania and Native North America

Hope B. Werness (New York, London: Continuum, 2000)

Review by Norman Hurst

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Trespassers on Easter Island: Explorers, Whalers, Slavers, Adventurers, Missionaries, Scientists and Tourists, from 1722 to the Present Time

Hanns Ebensten, 2001

(The Ketch and Yawl Press, Key West)

Hard cover, 157 pages, $25.00. ISBN: 0-9641735-1-4

Review by Georgia Lee

Exalted Sits the Chief: The Ancient History of Hawai'i Island

by Ross Cordy

Mutual Publishing, Honolulu. 2000

Paperback, 6"x9"; 464 pages; 15 tables; 75 figures (including maps and photograph) glossary, references, and index. 19.95.

Review by Dave Tuggle

Mangarevan Archaeology: Interpretations Using New Data and 40 Year Old Excavations to Establish a Sequence from 1200 to 1900 AD

Edited by Roger C. Green and Marshall I. Weisler

University of Otago Studies in Prehistoric Anthropology No. 19,2000 $10

Review by Vincent H. Stefan

Easter Island Archaeology: Research on Early Rapanui Culture

Christopher M. Stevenson and William S. Ayres, eds.

Easter Island Foundation, 2000 $25

Review by Paul G. Balm