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Sea People

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by Christina Thompson


  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

  Young, Ben, 284

  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.

  About the Author

  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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  SEA PEOPLE. Copyright © 2019 by Christina Thompson. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  Excerpt from Book VI “The Princess at the River” from THE ODYSSEY by Homer, translated by Robert Fitzgerald. Copyright © 1961, 1963, by Robert Fitzgerald. Copyright renewed 1989 by Benedict R. C. Fitzgerald, on behalf of the Fitzgerald children. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and Benedict Fitzgerald.

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