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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo11amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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MAORI CARVED CANOE PROW THE NEW SOUTH SEA EXHIBIT lit/ liolxri II. Loir. XOTKS ox THE SOlTH SKA IIAI,L Wri'H the excel)!!!)!! of a .s!!iall Austi-alia!! e.\l!il)it, the S()!Hl! Sea Hall ojxMied to the i)iil)Hc on January 25 is devoted entirely to the Miiseu!!!'s eolleetion from Polynesia and Melanesia. Compared w itli the pri!!!itive folk of other regions of the globe, these South Sea Island- ers are a seafaring race. In striking contrast to the Afrieai! negroes, who generally manifest a sti-ange repugnance to traveling l)y water, their voy- ages are recko!ied !iot hy hundreds l)ut l)y thousands of miles. The most common craft employed i!i the area is a di!g()i!t canoe with an outrigger attachment. The ^Iuse!U!i exhibit comprises a i!U!nber of models of the simple canoes found in Samoa, Fiji and the Society Islands, while a larger !i!()del of a New Zeala!id l)()at illustrates the elaboi-ate carving .sometimes lavished on their structure. The tremendous distances actually traveled by the South Sea Islanders f!-oin their probable home in southeastern A.sia to Hawaii a!id Kaster Isla!!(l ha\(' sti!i!ulated so!i!e scholai's to account for certain sii!iilarities bet\vee!i .South Sea Isla!id ci!lti!!-e ai!d South American culture by the hypothesis that the Polynesia!)s at oi!e time touched the shores of the New World a!!(l si!cceeded i!! leaving their impress on the industi-ial life of its inl!al)itants. This theoiy, although defended by dis- tinguished ethnologists, has been generally rejected, not because the South Sea Islai!ders a!-e consi(le!-e<l ii!capal)le of tra\-e!-sing the .space of twenty- five liundred miles intervening Ix'tween Easter Island and South America, but simply because the alleged cultural resemblances are far too few to be con\inci!ig a!!d ai-e i-eadily e.\plai!ie(l by the assi!!iiptio!i of i!idepe!ide!!t de\cloi)!!ient. 53

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  • booksubject:Natural_history
  • bookpublisher:New_York_American_Museum_of_Natural_History
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