Polynesian culture
Island triangle traditions
Polynesian culture refers to the traditions, practices, beliefs, and social structures shared among the indigenous peoples of Polynesia, a region of more than a thousand islands scattered across the central and southern Pacific Ocean, including Hawaii, Samoa, Tonga, Tahiti, and New Zealand.
These cultures share linguistic roots, navigation traditions, and customs like tattooing, communal land use, and oral storytelling.
The festival celebrated Polynesian culture through traditional dance and canoe-building demonstrations.
- outrigger canoesBoats with parallel stabilizing floats
- hula danceHawaiian rhythmic movement tradition
- Hawaiian languagePacific island native tongue
- petroglyphsCarvings on natural stone
- featherworkArt using bird plumes
wood carving · tiki carving · fish hook · tattooing · mana · oral tradition · sacred chants · coconut palm · chiefdoms · sacred sites · rites of passage · star charts · lei · flower crown · ancestral worship · palm · tapa · hula
- culturesMediterranean cultures, subculture, multicultural, counterculture, underground
- Island CulturesEaster Island, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Marshall Islands
- Pacific cultureskava, mana, tapu, taboo, hula
- Tuvaluatoll, atolls, South Pacific, Pacific Ocean
- OceaniaFiji, New Zealand, Australia, Samoa, Tonga
- island cultureseafaring, aloha, island cuisine, surfing, outrigger canoe
Polynesian cultureEuropean culture
Heritage of the continent
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Polynesian cultureWestern civilization
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