The Journal of the Polynesian Society

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1 The Journal of the Polynesian Society VOLUME 117 No.3 SEPTEMBER 2008 THE POLYNESIAN SOCIETY THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND NEW ZEALAND

2 THE JOURNAL OF THE POLYNESIAN SOCIETY Volume 117 SEPTEMBER 2008 Number 3 Editor JUDITH HUNTSMAN Review Editor MARK BUSSE Editorial Assistants JUDITH MACDONALD DOROTHY BROWN Published quarterly by the Polynesian Society (Inc.), Auckland, New Zealand

3 Published in New Zealand by the Polynesian Society (Inc.) Copyright 2008 by the Polynesian Society (Inc.) Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of private study, research, criticism, or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part of this publication may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Inquiries should be made to: ISSN Hon. Secretary The Polynesian Society c/- Mäori Studies The University of Auckland Private Bag 92019, Auckland Indexed in CURRENT CONTENTS, Behavioural, Social and Managerial Sciences, in INDEX TO NEW ZEALAND PERIODICALS, and in ANTHROPOLOGICAL INDEX. AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND

4 Volume 117 SEPTEMBER 2008 Number 3 CONTENTS Notes and News Articles RICHARD A. SUNDT Reconstruction of a Carved Mäori Church: Controversy and Creativity at Manutuke, (Part II) BOYD DIXON, DENNIS GOSSER and SCOTT S. WILLIAMS Traditional Hawaiian Men s Houses and their Socio-Political Context in Lualualei, Leeward West O ahu, Hawai i Shorter Communication JO ANNE VAN TILBERG, ADRIENNE L. KAEPPLER, MARSHALL WEISLER, CLAUDIO CRISTINO and ANGELA SPITZER Petrographic Analysis of Thin-sections of Samples from Two Monolithic Statues (Moai), Rapa Nui (Easter Island) Reviews Barker, Holly M.: Bravo for the Marshallese: Regaining Control in a Post- Nuclear, Post-Colonial World. NANCY J. POLLOCK Barker, John (ed.): The Anthropology of Morality in Melanesia and Beyond. LAMONT LINDSTROM Evison, Harry C.: The Ngäi Tahu Deeds: A Window on New Zealand History. LYN CARTER

5 Moyle, Richard (ed.): Oceanic Music Encounters: The Print Resource and the Human Resource. HENRY JOHNSON Rio, Knut Mikjel: The Power of Perspective: Social Ontology and Agency on Ambrym, Vanuatu. MICHELLE MacCARTHY Publications Received Minutes of the 117th Annual General Meeting of The Polynesian Society Publications of the Polynesian Society

6 NOTES AND NEWS Contributors to This Issue Claudio P. Cristino is Director of the Easter Island and Oceania Studies Centre and teaches in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chile. He has carried out fieldwork in Eastern Polynesia and was head archaeologist of the archaeological survey of French Polynesia in the 1980s, restoring some of the most important ceremonial centres in Tahiti. He was resident archaeologist on Easter Island for 25 years where he co-founded the Easter Island Studies Centre, directed the Anthropological Museum and was responsible for the island archaeological survey and restoration of sites like Orongo village and Ahu Tongariki. He has published extensively in French, English and Spanish, and collaborated on a number of scientific documentaries. His latest book, co-authored by Patricia Vargas and Roberto Izaurieta, 1000 Años en Rapa Nui (University of Chile 2006), is an integrated account of Easter Island settlement patterns. Boyd Dixon s involvement in archaeology began in 1969 as a volunteer on the excavation of a Maya site in Guatemala, and culminated with the award of a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Connecticut in 1989 for a dissertation on the prehistory of the Comayagua Valley in Honduras. For the past 40 years his interest in the social structure of prehistoric settlement patterns has led him to undertake fieldwork at Neolithic to Roman sites in Great Britain, at a Roman copper mine in Spain, at an Inca hill fort in Peru, at Manteno villages in coastal Ecuador, at Maya sites in Belize, and in the Polynesian islands of Hawai i and the Micronesian islands of Guam, Rota, Tinian and Palau. He is currently a Senior Archaeologist in the firm of Post, Buckley, Shu, and Jernigan in Austin, Texas, conducting cultural resource management investigations in the mainland U.S. Dennis Gosser holds a MA in anthropology from Brigham Young University, and is taking much too long finishing a doctoral dissertation on Hawaiian social integration in Lualualei Valley. He has collaborated with Boyd Dixon on projects in Honduras, Hawai i and Micronesia, and has also worked in southern Mexico, California and the south-eastern United States. Adrienne L. Kaeppler is Curator of Oceanic Ethnology at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. She has carried out extended fieldwork in the Pacific and extensive research in museums, especially on collections from the voyages of Captain Cook. She has published widely on museum collections and on the visual and performing arts of the Pacific. Her latest book The Pacific Arts of Polynesia and Micronesia has just been published by Oxford University Press. Angela Spitzer received her BSc and BA honours at the University of Queensland in She currently works in cultural heritage in Australia. She is interested in stone tool technology and use. Richard A. Sundt is Associate Professor at the University of Oregon where he offers courses in Ancient and Medieval architecture and the arts of Oceania. His study of 221

7 222 Notes & News the second church at Manutuke (near Gisborne) follows on from that of the erection of Rangiätea Church at Otaki, published in the JPS in Related to both of these studies is his current book project: Mäori Church Building and Decoration in Aotearoa during the 19th Century. In the last few years he has gradually resumed research and publication on medieval topics relating to Gothic architecture in southern France, his principal specialty. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Center of Medieval Art (based in New York City). In 2000 he developed, and has since directed, the online International Census of Dissertations on Medieval Art and Architecture in the interests of the Center. Jo Anne Van Tilburg is a Research Associate of The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she is also Director of the UCLA Rock Art Archive. She has conducted fieldwork in Rapa Nui for over 20 years and in the Republic of Belau, Micronesia. As Director of the Easter Island Statue Project, a field inventory and analysis of the monolithic statues, her recent publications include Among Stone Giants (Scribner s 2003) and Remote Possibilities: Hoa Hakananai a and HMS Topaze on Rapa Nui (British Museum Press 2006). A two volume work entitled Easter Island Statues: An Archaeological Inventory is in preparation. Van Tilburg is also a two-term appointed member of the U.S. National Park System Advisory Board s National Landmarks Committee. Marshall Weisler is Head of the Archaeology Program, University of Queensland. He has conducted archaeological research across Oceania for nearly 30 years. His latest book is On the Margins of Sustainability: Prehistoric Settlement of Utrok Atoll, Northern Marshall Islands (2001, BAR International series 967). He has published extensively on the geochemical analysis of stone tools for reconstructing prehistoric Polynesian interaction and, in 2007, documented the movement of a stone adze from Hawai i to the Tuamotus (Science 317: ), which ranks as one of the longest prehistoric voyages in world prehistory. Scott Williams received his BA in Anthropology from the University of Hawai i at Mänoa, working through his undergraduate years as a field archaeologist for the Bishop Museum and several cultural resource management firms in Hawai i. His interest in lithic technology took him to Washington State University for his MA, after which he returned to Hawai i where he spent nearly 20 years working on cultural resource management projects in the main islands of Hawai i, and in Guam, Rota, American Samoa, Palau, Kwajalein and Australia. In 2002 he moved to Washington State to work with the State Heritage Preservation Office, and he is currently the Cultural Resources Program Manager at the Washington State Department of Transportation, directing a staff of 12 archaeologists and architectural historians on projects statewide.