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  2. Gallery of Polynesian flags - Wikipedia

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  3. Oceanian art - Wikipedia

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    The most famous Polynesian art forms are the Moai (statues) of Rapa Nui/Easter Island. Polynesian art is characteristically ornate, and often meant to contain supernatural power or mana. [15] Polynesian works of art were thought to contain spiritual power and could effect change in the world. [16]

  4. Flag of French Polynesia - Wikipedia

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    Two red horizontal bands encase a wide white band in a 1:2:1 ratio; centered on the white band is the emblem of French Polynesia as a 0.43m diameter disk with a blue and white wave pattern depicting the sea on the lower half and a gold and white ray pattern depicting the sun on the upper half; a Polynesian canoe rides on the wave pattern; the canoe has a crew of five represented by five stars ...

  5. Polynesia - Wikipedia

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    Polynesian languages are all members of the family of Oceanic languages, a sub-branch of the Austronesian language family. Polynesian languages show a considerable degree of similarity. The vowels are generally the same—/a/, /e/, /i/, /o/, and /u/, pronounced as in Italian, Spanish, and German—and the consonants are always followed by a vowel.

  6. Kurī - Wikipedia

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    Kurī specimen, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 1924 The Kurī is an extinct breed of Polynesian Dog kept by Māori people.It was introduced to New Zealand by the Polynesian ancestors of the Māori during their migration from East Polynesia in the 13th century AD.

  7. Tribal art - Wikipedia

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    Tribal art is the visual arts and material culture of indigenous peoples.Also known as non-Western art or ethnographic art, or, controversially, primitive art, [1] tribal arts have historically been collected by Western anthropologists, private collectors, and museums, particularly ethnographic and natural history museums.

  8. Isaack Gilsemans - Wikipedia

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    Gilsemans produced a number of drawings that documented island and native life. His depictions of the Māori people were the first for Europeans. [1] [3] A sketcher and cartographer, he is thought to have been responsible for the coastal profiles in Tasman's journal and therefore the first European to make an image of Van Diemen's Land. [4]

  9. Tā moko - Wikipedia

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    Painting by Gottfried Lindauer of a moko being carved into a man's face by a tohunga-tā-moko (tattooist) A collection of kōrere (feeding funnels). Historically the skin was carved by uhi [6] (chisels), rather than punctured as in common contemporary tattooing; this left the skin with grooves rather than a smooth surface.