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A gallery of tribal art and artifacts from the South Pacific. Including a library of over 1000 related rare and out of print books.
http://www.OceanicArts.com

An exposition of the Art and Artists in Polynesia, including photography, dance, sculpture, painting and creativity of all kinds
http://www4.50megs.com/tahitilink

Conferences and proceedings, newsletters, and membership information. A professional association based in Guam.
http://www.uog.edu/rfk/piala/piala.html

Dutch non-profit organization promotes dance cultures from the South Pacific islands.
http://www.mundoetnico.nl

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
http://www.museum.upenn.edu/navigation/intro.html

Documenting the scale, frequency and temporal duration of interaction is fundamental to understanding the evolution and transformation of prehistoric societies, and recent geochemical analyses of stone tools in Polynesia are challenging long-held beliefs that once settled, island cultures evolved in relative isolation.
http://www.otago.ac.nz/Anthropol...fic/interaction/interaction.html

Most islands of Polynesia were settled by A. D. 1000, and inter-island voyaging was a vital link sustaining small populations on isolated landfalls. More than a dozen ecologically-marginal islands found throughout the eastern Pacific have records of prehistoric settlement, but were abandoned by the time of European contact.
http://www.otago.ac.nz/Anthropol...acific/marginal/marginframe.html

The spirit and art of Polynesian dance.
http://www.spiritsouthseas.com/

Online database, available via subscription.
http://www.artrecord.com

In the Pacific today, although some Islanders have abandoned its use, its traditional functions are being maintained and it is being developed into an important cash crop.
http://www.prairienet.org/~kagan/intro.htm