They are remarkable in that they look more like the artwork found in central Polynesia, like the Marquesas Islands, than the art of Hawai'i. The architecture found on Necker is also similar to that of central Polynesia. The drawing above comes from one of the many publications of the second Tanager Expedition . Some anthropologists have speculated that the Necker Island images are examples of an earlier Hawaiian culture that was displaced in the 12 or 13th centuries by newcomers from Tahiti. All rights reserved.
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