Polynesia, The Pacific, and Australia Answers
What do the relief sculptures on the support poles, wall planks, and lower end of the rafters of the building above represent?
Why is the art of the Pacific Island cultures, such as New Zealand and Australia, similar in many ways?
Answers may vary. Because the different islands are close together, they share many of the same artistic characteristics.
On what part of the face was a female Maori tattooed?
Around the mouth and on the chin.
What is moko?
What caused many of the Moai at Easter Island to be destroyed?
Answers may vary. Many of them were knocked down and destroyed when the natives entered a period of warfare among themselves.
On what part of the face was a female Maori tattooed?
Who were the early inhabitants of Australia?
Why is the art of the Pacific Island cultures, such as New Zealand and Australia, similar in many ways?
What role did women play in creation of the Maori Meeting House?
Women wove the decorative tukutuku panels inside the meeting house
Who were the early inhabitants of Australia?
Aborigines
What do the parts of the image above represent?
Answers may vary.The currents are represented by sticks held together by coconut fibers, and the shells mark the islands on the route.
What is moko?
Tattooed designs of the Maori people that became a personal signature.
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