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Hundreds of thousands of works of art and artefacts from many parts of the Pacific are dispersed across European museums. They range from seemingly quotidian things such as fish-hooks and baskets to great sculptures of divinities, architectural forms...
The Community Law Manual 2018-19 is a trail-blazing resource that helps New Zealanders (and their advocates) help themselves. The Manual contains over 900 pages of easy-to-read legal info, on just about every area of community and personal life. Re-r...
DVD
Actor Sam Neill retraces the route Captain James Cook took 250 years before on his legendary journey across the Southwest Pacific, explores the cultures of the islands Cook visited and discusses Cook's controversial legacy with the locals.
Music CD
Audio CD
This course consists of 130 lessons, supplementary materials, conversational materials, Tongan proverbs and songs, specialised word lists, readings and a glossary. The lessons are written as a guide for students who want to speak and understand the T...
Picture book
A Samoan story of adventure as two boys search for the manumea. Their thrilling journey takes them from the village at the coast to the dark forest, discovering wonders along the way. Mose and the Manumea is designed to be read independently by 8-10 year...
Counts from 1-5 in Cook Islands Maori and English, using objects: ukelele, coconut drinks, dogs, shoes, and toes.
"A wonderful anthology of eight stories addressing children's rights and sustainable development, written by child authors from all around the world and produced in conjunction with UNESCO's Voices of Future Generations initiative. UNESCO's Voices of...
"This is the final episode of Silamanino series. Do not miss out: whether Enoka is really having mental illness, what will happen to Silamanino who is falling in love with Tavita? ...."--Container.
"The bond between Tavita and Silamanino has developed and is flourishing into a meaningful partnership. At the same time Enoka's journey back from being missing and presumed dead is also finding his way back into his wife and children's lives."--Cont...
2014 Tour. Get to now the Silamanino Film series, the cast and crew and see behind the scenes from the story writer and director.
"The plot of 'The Tuiga Part 2' examines the challenges of maintaining Samoan traditions in modern times. Part one focused on the main character Pualemamae, the chosen taupou of her aiga and village in Samoa. Her life becomes complicated when she is ...
"With a history now stretching back four decades, Pacific festivals of Aotearoa assert a multicultural identity of New Zealand and situate the country squarely within a sea of islands. In this volume, Jared Mackley-Crump gives a provocative look at t...
Two young boys go into a shop in Samoa and shoplift a box of pain killers. The shop keeper catches the boys and asks them to explain themselves. They tell her that they cannot afford the pain killers and that they are for their mother who is suffering...
Celebrations commemorating 56 years of Samoan independence.
"Through beautiful images, this "A-Z" book portrays some of the people, places, plants, animals, and activities that make up the everyday life of children in Hawaii and shows the brilliant color that characterizes the Hawaiian Islands"--Provided by p...
Molau and Tanovo is a tale from Fiji about how two fighting giants caused the creation of the islands around Kadavu. Bula Fiji is a short factual introduction to the country and culture.
"For Seventh Day Adventists, the keeping of the Sabbath is of utmost importance. What then, were Adventists in the Kingdom of Tonga to do when the human-ordained international dateline contradicted their long-held beliefs? [This ] is an-depth religious...
The woman who was swallowed by a whale is a folktale ; Niue : rock of Polynesia is a short factual introduction to the country and culture.
After a cyclone destroys the village, the villagers show their resilience. Includes notes for parents, caregivers, and teachers.
Silikana is very fond of her sweet smelling garden but one morning as she flies over she notices something is dreadfully wrong, the plants have withered and need rain. Includes notes for parents, caregivers, and teachers.
A reader for children in Niuean naming things inside a house.
"Encompassing thousands of islands from the remote shores of Rapa Nui to the dense rainforest of Papua New Guinea, Oceania is one of the world's most extraordinary and diverse regions. This book, accompanying the spectacular exhibition at the Royal A...
Story about two young girls, who are meeting each other for the first time (at a concert) although their mothers are sisters. There is a lot of fun and laughter, which brings the cousins closer together. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.
"A young boy has a mind full of wonderful stories but, when he writes them down, they come back covered in red pen. It seems his dyslexia will always hold him back from sharing his creativity. Then a new teacher arrives at school! My Storee is a picture...
"This book explores how Tongan cultural practices conflict with and coexist within Hawaiian society"--Provided by publisher.
"When Milly the cow looks up at the moon she knows it must be lonely, so she decides to keep it company. The other cows think she's crazy, but Milly continues trying to win the moon's friendship. But this is harder than Milly thinks. After all, how do...
"Long ago, Tangaloa cast a fiery net upon the waters and drew forth ocean’s might. The crashing wave. The surging tide that speaks to Masina the moon. And all the living things that swim and creep in the midnight blue depths. All this Tangaloa fashioned...
"This book of poetry is the end result of our participation in the Writers in Schools Project. We were fortunate to have Dr Selina Tusitala Marsh (University of Auckland) work with us. Her motivation, expertise, direction and poetry reading inspired ...
"Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa is the great ocean continent. While it is common to understand the ocean as something that divides land, for those Indigenous to the Pacific or the Moana, it was traditionally a connector and an ancestor. Imperialism in the Moana,...
"Black Dog and Christina have been best friends for a long time. Suddenly, one cold day in winter, everything begins to change."--Publisher description.
"When the eleventh sheep falls out of Sian's dreams and into the real world, Sian is excited to have a new friend. Every day they play together, and at night Sian falls straight asleep with her arms around her woolly friend. But she can tell the eleventh...
"Captain James Cook first set sail to the Pacific in 1768 - 250 years ago. These vast waters, one third of the earth's surface, were uncharted - but not unknown. A rich diversity of people and cultures navigated, traded, lived and fought here for thousands...
A Sāmoan story of adventure as two boys search for the manumea. Their thrilling journey takes them from the village at the coast to the dark forest, discovering wonders along the way.
"The Sāmoan Islands are virtually unique in that tattooing has been continuously practised with indigenous techniques: the full male tattoo, the peʻa has evolved in subtle ways in its design since the nineteenth century, but remains as elaborate, mea...
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