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Te Miro o'one: the archaeology of contact on Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
World Archaeology • 42 (4) • Published In 2010 • Pages: 562-580
By: Pollard, Joshua, Paterson, Alistair, Welham, Kate.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper examines the "cosmogonic crisis" wrought by European contact and represented in post-contact rock art. The carvings of European sailing ships with curved hulls resembling Polynesian canoes are found near caves and on stone structures, including the giant [n]moai[/n] figures. The authors suggest that while the Rapa Nui people had material interests regarding the ships, the art represents their re-contextualization as part of the voyaging legends of their founding ancestor and myths about spiritual voyaging between cosmological realms.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Visual arts
- Ethnozoology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Rapa Nui
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2016
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Polynesia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2012
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date given
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1722–1868
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Easter Island, Valparaíso, Chile
- NotesAdditional notes
- Joshua Pollard, Alistair Paterson and Kate Welham
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 577-580)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 75646489
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Easter Island