Research Catalog

Title

Vastly ingenious : the archaeology of Pacific material culture : in honour of Janet M. Davidson / edited by Atholl Anderson, Kaye Green and Foss Leach.

Publication

Dunedin, N.Z. : Otago University Press, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• Anderson, Atholl.
• Green, K. (Kaye), 1938-
• Leach, Foss, 1942-

Description

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

Subject

• Art, Polynesian
• Davidson, Janet M
• Maori (New Zealand people) > Material culture
• Material culture > New Zealand
• Material culture > Polynesia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction. Janet M. Davidson : a museum archaeologist / Roger C. Green -- 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. Meʻa 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 Szabó -- 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 Wañelek, Papua New Guinea / Susan Bulmer -- 19. Still vastly ingenious? Globalisation and the collecting of Pacific material cultures / Sean Mallon.

ISBN

• 9781877372452 (hbk.)
• 1877372455
• 9781877372452

LCCN

2007702364

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library