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Big Ideas / Essential Questions
Content Area 1: Global Prehistory
Content Area 2: Ancient Mediterranean
Content Area 3: Early Europe & Colonial Americas
Content Area 4: Later Europe and Americas
Content Area 5: Indigenous Americas
Content Area 6: Africa
Content Area 7: West and Central Asia
Content Area 8: South, East and Southeast Asia
Content Area 9: The Pacific
Content Area 10: Global Contemporary
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content area 9
the pacific
(700 - 1980 C.E.)
11 works
213. Nan Madol / Pohnpei, Micronesia. Saudeleur Dynasty. C. 700-1600 C.E./ Basalt Boulders and prismatic columns
214. Moai on platform (ahu) / Rapa Nui (Easter Island). c.1100-1600 C.E. / Volcanic tuff figures on basalt base
215. 'Ahu 'ula (feather cape) / Hawaiian / Late 18th century C.E. / Feathers and fiber
216. Staff god / Rarotonga, Cook Islands, central Polynesia / Late 18th to early 19th century C.E. / wood, tapa, fiber, and feathers
217. Female deity / Nukuoro, Micronesia / c. 18th to 19th century C.E. / wood
218. Buk (mask) / Torres Strait / Mid-to-late 19th Century C.E. / Turtle shell, wood, fiber, feathers, and shell
219. Hiapo (tapa) / Niue / c.1850-1900 C.E. / tapa or bark cloth, freehand painting
220. Tamati Waka Nene / by Gottfried Lindauer / 1890 C.E. / Oil on canvas
221. Navigation Chart / Marshall Islands, Micronesia / 19th to early 20th century C.E. / wood and fiber
222. Malagan display and mask / New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea / c. 20th century C.E. / wood, pigment, fiber, and shell
223. Presentation of Fijian mats and tapa cloths to Queen Elizabeth II / Fiji, Polynesia / 1953 C.E. / Multimedia performance (costume; cosmetics, including scent; chant; movement; and pandanus fiber / hibiscus fiber mats, photographic documentation