Handcrafts of the Society Islands (Classic Reprint)

Handcrafts of the Society Islands (Classic Reprint) PDF

Author: Willowdean Chatterson Handy

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-07-25

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 9780282553821

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Excerpt from Handcrafts of the Society Islands The lower extremities' [of the rafters of a house]' were ornamented with finely - woven, variegated matting or curiously braided cord, stained with brilliant red or black and yellow native colours, ingeniously wound round the polished wood. Exhibiting a singularly neat and chequered appearance terminated in a graceful fringe or bunch of tassels. The fringes of olden time house decoration have survived in costumes for dancing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Handcrafts of Society Islands

Handcrafts of Society Islands PDF

Author: Willowdean Chatterson Handy

Publisher: Hassell Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781019367995

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A fascinating exploration of the traditional handcrafts and artistic traditions of the Society Islands, including weaving, carving, and pottery. With detailed descriptions of techniques and materials, as well as a wealth of beautiful photographs and illustrations, this book provides a comprehensive overview of these vibrant and enduring cultural practices. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Ancient Tahitian Society

Ancient Tahitian Society PDF

Author: Douglas L. Oliver

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 2019-09-30

Total Pages: 1432

ISBN-13: 0824884531

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“Tahiti is far famed yet too little known.” Thus wrote J. M. Orsmond in 1848, and the same assertion can be made in 1972. Thousands of pages had been published about Tahiti and its neighboring islands when Orsmond uttered his judgment, and tens of thousands have been published since that time, but a unified, comprehensive, and detailed description of the pre-European ways of life of the inhabitants of those Islands is yet to appear in print. The present work, lengthy as it is, makes no such claim to comprehensiveness; rather, it is concerned mainly with the social relations of those inhabitants, and it serves up only enough about their technology, their religion, their aesthetic expressions, and so forth to place descriptions of their social relations in context and render them more comprehensible. Volumes 1 and 2 of this work are a reconstruction of the Islanders’ way of life as it was believed to have been just before it began to be transformed by European influence—a period labeled the Late Indigenous Era. Volume 3 covers events in Tahiti and Mo‘orea from about 1767 to 1815—a period labeled the Early European Era.

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