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Vastly ingenious : the archaeology of Pacific material culture : in honour of Janet M. Davidson

documentary heritage
  • Other Name

    Archaeology of Pacific material culture. (Alternate title)

  • Place
  • Other Id

    GN662 VAS (Library of Congress Call Number)

    39813 (Cat ID)

    81175 (DBTextworks system ID)

    33119 (Presto content ID)

  • Department

Images and documents

Catalogue

  • Object Type
  • Name/Title
    Vastly ingenious : the archaeology of Pacific material culture : in honour of Janet M. Davidson
  • Other Name

    Archaeology of Pacific material culture. (Alternate title)

  • Primary Maker
  • Contributor/Publisher
    Otago University Press
  • Place
  • Date
    Circa 2007
  • Physical Description

    319 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.

  • ISBN/ISSN
    9781877372452
  • Level of Current Record
    Bib record
  • Member Object

    2 items in this collection. View all items.

  • Subject Category
  • Content
    1. Early Maori disc pendants / Nigel Prickett
    2. An archaeological collection of gourd artefacts from the Kohika lake village / Geoffrey Irwin, Rod Wallace and Stephanie Green
    3. Cooking with pots - again / Helen Leach
    4. Metal pa kahawai - a post-contact fishing lure form in northern New Zealand / Ian Smith
    5. A cache of fishhooks from Serendipity Cave, Jackson bay, New Zealand / Foss Leach
    6. Horticultural site complexes on stony soils of the eastern North Island: an aerial interpretation / Kevin L. Jones
    7. Ecuadorian sailing rafts and Oceanic landfalls / Atholl Anderson, Helene Martinsson-Wallin and Karen Stothert
    8. Arthur Kempe of H MS Adventure and Veryan, Cornwall / Peter Gathercole
    9. Me a lalanga and the category Koloa: intertwining value and history in Tonga / Adrienne L. Kaeppler
    10. Ancestral Polynesian fishing gear: archaeological insights from Tonga / David V. Burley and Richard Shutler jr
    11. Reading Pacific pots / Geoffrey Clark and Duncan Wright
    12. The rise of the Saudeleur: dating the Nan Madol chiefdom, Pohnpei / J. Stephen Athens
    13. A study of gorges from the Gognga-Cove Beach Site, Tumon, Guam / Yosihiko H. Sinoto
    14. The role of fishing lure shanks for the past people of Pohnpei, eastern Caroline Islands, Micronesia / Paul Rainbird
    15. An assessment of shell fishhooks of the Lapita cultural complex / Katherine Szabo
    16. The material culture of Makira / Moira White
    17. Shalf-hole stone implements of New Britain, Papua New Guinea / Jim Specht
    18. Pottery styles at Wan~elek, Papua New Guinea / Susan Bulmer
    19. Still vastly ingenious? Globalisation and the collecting of Pacific material cultures / Sean Mallon.
  • Public Access Text

    Includes bibliographical references and index.

  • Collection Type
    Reading Room
    Ethnology Library
  • Copyright
    All rights reserved
  • Last Update
    19 Dec 2023

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