Vastly ingenious
Subtitle: the archaeology of Pacific material culture : in honour of Janet M. Davidson
By: edited by Atholl Anderson, Kaye Green and Foss Leach.
Contributors: Anderson, Atholl.; Green, K. 1938-; Leach, Foss, 1942-
Publisher: Otago University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Dunedin, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9781877372452; 9781877372452
Subjects: Davidson, Janet M.; Material culture -- Polynesia.; Material culture -- New Zealand.; Art, Polynesian.; Maori (New Zealand people) -- Material culture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Janet M. Davidson : a museum archaeologist / Roger C. Green; title: 1. Early Maori disc pendants / Nigel Prickett; title: 2. An archaeological collection of gourd artefacts from the Kohika lake village / Geoffrey Irwin, Rod Wallace and Stephanie Green; title: 3. Cooking with pots; title: again / Helen Leach; title: 4. Metal pa kahawai - a post-contact fishing lure form in northern New Zealand / Ian Smith; title: 5. A cache of fishhooks from Serendipity Cave, Jackson bay, New Zealand / Foss Leach; title: 6. Horticultural site complexes on stony soils of the eastern North Island: an aerial interpretation  / Kevin L. Jones; title: 7. Ecuadorian sailing rafts and Oceanic landfalls / Atholl Anderson, Helene Martinsson-Wallin and Karen Stothert; title: 8. Arthur Kempe of H MS Adventure and Veryan, Cornwall / Peter Gathercole; title: 9. Meʻa lalanga and the category Koloa: intertwining value and history in Tonga / Adrienne L. Kaeppler; title: 10. Ancestral Polynesian fishing gear: archaeological insights from Tonga / David V. Burley and Richard Shutler jr; title: 11. Reading Pacific pots / Geoffrey Clark and Duncan Wright; title: 12. The rise of the Saudeleur: dating the Nan Madol chiefdom, Pohnpei / J. Stephen Athens; title: 13. A study of gorges from the Gognga-Cove Beach Site, Tumon, Guam / Yosihiko H. Sinoto; title: 14. The role of fishing lure shanks for the past people of Pohnpei, eastern Caroline Islands, Micronesia / Paul Rainbird; title: 15. An assessment of shell fishhooks of the Lapita cultural complex / Katherine Szabó; title: 16. The material culture of Makira / Moira White; title: 17. Shalf-hole stone implements of New Britain, Papua New Guinea / Jim Specht; title: 18. Pottery styles at Wañelek, Papua New Guinea / Susan Bulmer; title: 19. Still vastly ingenious? Globalisation and the collecting of Pacific material cultures / Sean Mallon.