Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 131
Raukawa story, 131–32, 133
Truman, H. S., 244
Tuamotus, 8, 37, 43–50, 243
appearance of inhabitants, 47
atolls of, 43–44
canoes, 48–50
chart of the origin of the world, 126
Cook and, 79
cosmogony of, 133
Darwin and, 44–45
dogs on, 47
eyewitness accounts, 43, 47–48
food of, 47
fresh water and, 44
Hōkūle‘a voyages, 281, 288–89
inhabitants and human activity in, 47
location of, 43
master canoe builders of, 49
Roggeveen and, 62
tools of, 47
Tupaia’s chart and, 94
“voyaging with intent” to, 261
Wallis’s voyage and, 70
weapons, 47
“Tuamotuan creation charts by Paiore, The” (Emory), 126
Tubuai Islands, 90
Tupaia, 65, 80–87, 316
appearance, 80
chart of all known islands, 91–98, 250, 272
chart of all known islands, language of, 93, 163
chart of Ra‘iatea, 92
Cook and, 85–87, 89–91, 119, 314, 316
death of, 110
drawings by, 85
geographic knowledge of, 97–98, 110
language of, similarity to all Polynesians, 101, 104
lists of islands from, 83–84, 88
as “Man of Knowledge,” 81
map making by, 92
as a navigator, 96
in New Zealand, Māoris and, 100–102
subject-centered world view, 94–95, 96, 98
travels aboard the Endeavour, 110
United States Exploring Expedition of 1838–42, 93, 166
University of California
Berkeley, 222
Santa Barbara, 275
University of Michigan, Memorial Phoenix Project, 225
University of Otago, New Zealand, 189, 204, 206
Medical School, 189, 195, 337n189
Vahitahi Island, 79
Vanuatu, 103, 109, 197, 218, 223, 226, 232, 264, 302
Vikings of the Sunrise (Buck), 311
von Luschan, Felix, Hautfarbentafel (skin color panel), 179, 190
Wallis, Captain Samuel, 42, 48, 68, 80
Purea and, 75, 80
route to the Pacific, 70
Tahiti and, 70–71, 74–75, 81
voyage of the Dolphin and, 70, 77
Wallis Island, 116
“War canoe of New Zealand, A” (Parkinson), 99
Ward, R. Gerard, 258, 260, 261, 262, 264
The Settlement of Polynesia, 250
Waterlandt Island, 44
Watkins, Kennett, “Departure of the Six Canoes from Rarotonga for New Zealand,” 161
Watom Island, 221–22, 226
wayfinding, 163, 266–67, 287, 292
Webb, John W., 258, 261, 262, 264
The Settlement of Polynesia, 250
whaling, 116–17, 151
Whatman, William, 3, 6
Yap, 193, 222
Zealandia, 331n121
Photo Section
Map of the world showing Terra Australis Incognita, 1570.
Tattooed Marquesan, ca. 1804.
Easter Island moai, ca. 1776.
Nukutavake canoe, ca. 1767.
Nukutavake canoe detail.
Portrait of Captain Cook by William Hodges, 1775–76.
Tupaia’s drawing of a Māori trading with Joseph Banks, 1769.
Peter H. Buck (Te Rangi Hiroa), ca. 1904.
Von Luschan skin color panel.
Richard Owen and moa, ca. 1879.
Moa egg found by Jim Eyles at Wairau Bar in 1939.
Necklace of moa bone and stone “whale tooth” pendant from Wairau Bar.
“The Arrival of the Maoris” by L. J. Steele and C. F. Goldie, 1898.
Reconstructed Lapita pot from Vanuatu.
Micronesian stick chart.
Hōkūle‘a passing the Statue of Liberty in 2016.
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CHRISTINA THOMPSON is the editor of Harvard Review and the author of Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story, which was shortlisted for the Douglas Stewart Prize for nonfiction and the William Saroyan International Prize for writing. Her essays and criticism have appeared in numerous publications, including Vogue, the American Scholar, the Journal of Pacific History, and three editions of Best Australian Essays. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, a Writer’s Grant from the Australia Council, and a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Award. A dual citizen of the United States and Australia, she lives outside of Boston with her family.
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