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Discover a timeline of Pacific histories in this set covering pre-colonial times to modern day. From the ancient marae in Taputapuatea, French Polynesia to the untold histories of colonial forces in Fiji and Niue, this set covers a wide range of Pacific histories. SCIS no. 5423740

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The view of Huahine, one of the Society Islands in the South Seas

The view of Huahine, one of the Society Islands in the South Seas

John Cleveley Junior bore the same name as his father, who also had artistic skills. John received lessons from Paul Sandby, Chief Drawing Master at Woolwich, and came to specialise in shipping and...

Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771 :The head of a native of Otaheite, with the face curiously tataow'd; and the wry manner of defying their enemies as practis'd by the people of that & the neighbouring islands. S. Parkinson del. R. B. Godfrey sc. London, 1784.

Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771 :The head of a native of Otaheite, with the face curiously tataow'd; and the wry manner of defying their enemies as practis'd by the people of that & the neighbouring islands. S. Parkinson del. R. B. Godfrey sc. London, 1784.

Head and shoulders portraits of two Tahitian men, both wearing woven garments. The man on the left has tattoo showing on his right jaw and lower cheek; the one on the right has his mouth drawn dow...

Natives of Ellices Group. Natives of Aurora Island clothed in tapa. Raraka Islander.

Natives of Ellices Group. Natives of Aurora Island clothed in tapa. Raraka Islander.

Three vignettes depicting natives of various island groups. The two Ellice Island (now Tuvalu) men are probably based on drawings by Alfred Agate, from the United States Exploring Expedition, in 18...

Remi Majuro Chief. From the album: Views in the Pacific Islands

Remi Majuro Chief. From the album: Views in the Pacific Islands

Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique (The native peoples of the Pacific Ocean)

Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique (The native peoples of the Pacific Ocean)

This essay originally appeared in New Zealand Art at Te Papa (Te Papa Press, 2018). From the moment James Cook arrived back in England following his first voyage to the Pacific in 1771, a flurry o...

Trader's house Funafuti. From the album: Views in the Pacific Islands

Trader's house Funafuti. From the album: Views in the Pacific Islands

Ex-Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii

Ex-Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii

Ex-Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii.

A barge, transporting sugar cane on the Rewa River, Suva, Fiji

A barge, transporting sugar cane on the Rewa River, Suva, Fiji

Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Barges transporting sugar cane, Rewa River, Nausori, Fiji

Barges transporting sugar cane, Rewa River, Nausori, Fiji

Barges transporting sugar cane on the Rewa River, Nausori, Fiji, photographed circa 1930s by William Hall Raine. Shows the view from the river bank with railway wagons/carts on a jetty on the left....

New Zealand visitors to Fiji

New Zealand visitors to Fiji

On this shop-lined street in Suva, Fiji, shipping supplies could be found, imports and exports organised, and cakes, sweets and other food bought. The photographer, Alfred Burton, was travelling on...

Fijian independence celebrations, 1970

Fijian independence celebrations, 1970

Fiji’s new flag is raised during independence celebrations on 10 October 1970. Unlike many other Pacific peoples who were eager to cut colonial ties, many in Fiji were reluctant. By the mid-1950s t...

Pictorial Parade No. 120 - Samoan Family

Pictorial Parade No. 120 - Samoan Family

This 1961 Pictorial Parade visits Western Samoa shortly before it gains independence from Aotearoa. Locals are seen voting in the May referendum, where a huge majority voted for self-rule. Surgeon ...

Market scene, Papeete, Tahiti

Market scene, Papeete, Tahiti

Photograph taken by Whites Aviation Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, ¼ plate

South Pacific Forum, August 5, 1971, Wellington

South Pacific Forum, August 5, 1971, Wellington

On August 5 1971 the first meeting of the South Pacific Forum took place in Wellington. The first meeting of the South Pacific Forum was initiated by New Zealand and held in Wellington, with atten...

Nauru after phosphate mining

Nauru after phosphate mining

For many years New Zealand and other countries mined guano (bird droppings, rich in phosphate) from the Pacific island of Nauru. After the First World War, the League of Nations made Britain, Austr...

Pacific workers at Crown Lynn

Pacific workers at Crown Lynn

In the early 1960s thousands of people migrated from the Pacific Islands to fill labour shortages in the New Zealand workforce. These workers are preparing coffee mugs for glazing and firing at the...

Children perform at Glen Eden Pacific Islanders Church during a White Sunday service, 2002

Children perform at Glen Eden Pacific Islanders Church during a White Sunday service, 2002

A large group of unidentified children perform a song and dance routine at the White Sunday service at Glen Eden Pacific Islanders Church, 2002.

Pacific Island Presbyterian Church Newton

Learn about the PIPC Newton, one of the first Pacific churches in Aotearoa, New Zealand that carries a rich history of Pacific migrants. The church provided a gathering place and a community for Pa...

Pacific Islanders Congregational Church, Wellington, women's basketball team

Pacific Islanders Congregational Church, Wellington, women's basketball team

Photograph taken by Crown Studios of Wellington. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Taputapuatea - Verua

Taputapuatea - Verua

Popular Tahitian band "Verua" sing the Tahitian classic "Taputapuatea"

New World Heritage site 'links all of Polynesia'

A Māori, Pacific and indigenous studies professor says the newest world heritage site in the Pacific links all of Polynesia.

Where do Pasifika fit in the Treaty of Waitangi?

Waitangi Day conjures up different things for different people, but what does it mean for the thousands of Pasifika who live in Aotearoa?

Place names: marae

Place names: marae

Peter Dowling looks at the names of marae: Taputapuatea, Tūrangawaewae.

[untitled figure] - An Account of Samoan History up to 1918

[untitled figure] - An Account of Samoan History up to 1918

An Account of Samoan History up to 1918 - The Samoan House. — O le Pale Samoa

New Zealand in the Pacific - Capture of German Samoa

Samoans were not consulted when Britain, Germany and the United States agreed to partition their islands in December 1899.

Cook Islands achieves self-government

First included within the boundaries of New Zealand in 1901, the islands were governed by a Resident Commissioner until 1946. When they achieved self-government, Cook Islanders remained New Zealand...

Decolonising the Pacific | E-Tangata

Decolonising the Pacific | E-Tangata

Episode 2: White Man's Law (Niue) | Untold Pacific History

Episode 2: White Man's Law (Niue) | Untold Pacific History

What led Commissioner Larsen, the New Zealand administrator of Niue in the 1950s, to be murdered in his bed by three locals hell-bent on justice and revenge?

NZ's Fijian-Indians want to be recognised as Pasifika, not Asians

Fijian-Indians are facing an identity crisis in New Zealand, warn community leaders.

FORGOTTEN RACES (Northern Advocate, 24 September 1913)

Pacific Islands and New Zealand

As an island nation in the South Pacific, New Zealand has long had strong cultural, economic and political links with other Pacific Islands.

Samoans

After troubled beginnings, including early conflict in Samoa and the infamous Dawn Raids of the mid-1970s, the New Zealand–Samoa story has been one of proud achievement. New Zealand Samoans star on...

Australian South Sea Islanders: A century of race discrimination under Australian law (2003)

The Australian South Sea Islander community played a significant role in the development of Australia’s sugar and cotton industries.

Untold mining story of Banaba on display at art gallery

A travelling multi-media installation about mining on Banaba is showing at an art gallery in Auckland, New Zealand.

Blackbirding – Slavery practice

Blackbirding is the 19th- and early 20th-century practice of enslaving (often by force and deception) South Pacific islanders on the cotton and sugar plantations of Queensland, Australia, as well a...

Geological history of the Cook Islands

E-Book on geography and history of the Cook Islands.

Marshall Islands remembers devastation of nuke tests

The Marshall Islands is today remembering those affected by nuclear testing in their country.

Timeline of Pacific history

A in depth timeline of the history of the Pacific from the Lapita people to modern day society.

Blackbirding: Australia's history of luring, tricking and kidnapping Pacific Islanders

Recent debate in the United States over the legacy of slavery has reignited discussions about Australia's dark past.

Call for compensation for indentured labourers sent to Fiji

There's been a call for compensation in Fiji for the descendants of Indian indentured labourers brought to work the cane fields in the 19th century. The Daily Post reports call...

Kato'aga: Rotuman ceremonies

Kato'aga: Rotuman Ceremonies published with permission from the Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, Suva.

HAWAII'S FORMER QUEEN (Thames Star, 17 November 1917)

Inquiry - Niue: A Cautious Colony Comes of Age

Inquiry - Niue: A Cautious Colony Comes of Age

On the 3rd of September 1974, Niueans voted to self-govern in free association with New Zealand. Inquiry visits the tiny Pacific Island atoll one week before this hugely significant referendum, to ...

Tales of Time - Tama Uli

Tales of Time - Tama Uli

In excerpts from this Tales of Time documentary, Oscar Kightley investigates an uncomfortable chapter in Samoa's history — one with deep ties to his own family. In the late 19th century, German pla...

REVOLUTION IN HAWAII. (Evening Post, 30 January 1893)

Noho Hewa - The Wrongful Occupation of Hawai’i

Noho Hewa - The Wrongful Occupation of Hawai’i

In 1893, the monarch of Hawai'i, Queen Liliuokalani (1838-1917) was overthrown by a group of American sugar plantation owners led by Sanford Ballard Dole (1844-1926). Ever since, generations of Nat...

2: Tangata Whenua

2: Tangata Whenua

Around 850 years ago Polynesian explorers found an empty land and the story of people in Aotearoa began. A new culture emerged; tangata whenua had arrived and started to thrive.

Pleasant Island

Pleasant Island

View of the phosphate deposits on Pleasant Island (Nauru). The sea is filled up with porous rocks, and there are palm trees and a beach on the right

A Marshall Islands native in his national costume

A Marshall Islands native in his national costume

Showing a Marshall Islander in his national costume which consists of a patterned woven cloth tied at the hips and passed between the legs. He carries a paddle and stands in front of tropical foliage.

waist garment

Mat, waist, square with rounded corners. 'Marshall' [tag]. Known as in or nieded in the Marshall Islands and are worn by both men and women.

Tui vai

Tui vai. Water carrier. This tui vai consists of two large niu tui vai (larger coconuts sourced from a particular species of coconut tree). The two niu are cleaned out of the inner coconut flesh an...

Scott Hamilton: A slave raid in the Pacific | E-Tangata

Scott Hamilton: A slave raid in the Pacific | E-Tangata

Kia orana kotou, Mamae

Kia orana kotou, Mamae

Historic Hawaiian artefacts head home

Historic Hawaiian artefacts head home

A more than 200-year-old royal feather cloak and helmet gifted to Captain James Cook by a Hawaiian chief will make is way home after being housed in New Zealand for a century.

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