AP Art History Pacific Vocab

a god or goddess

• MANA

• AHU

• DEITY

• MOAI

cloth made from the bark of the paper mulberry tree, used in the Pacific islands.

• PUKAO

•  TAPA

• 'AHU 'ULA

• MANA

 is the traditional permanent marking of the body and face by Maori. But ta moko is distinct from tattoo in that the skin is carved instead of being punctured with needles.

• MOAI

• TAPA

• AHU

• TATU

a generalized, supernatural force or power, which may be concentrated in objects or persons.

• MANA

• TAPA

• PUKAO

• MOAI

Big wooden carvings prepared for large ceremonies with intricate traditional cultural events that take place in parts of New Ireland province in Papua New Guinea.

• 'AHU 'ULA

• PUKAO

• TATANUA MASKS

• MALANGGAN

a type of traditional mask made by the natives in the province of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. The masks are made of wood and other natural materials and used in funeral ceremonies called malagan.

• 'AHU 'ULA

• AHU

• TATANUA MASKS

• MANA

monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island in eastern Polynesia between the years 1250 and 1500.

• PUKAO

• MOAI

• MANA

• TATU

the hat-like structures or topknots formerly placed on top of some moai statues on Easter Island. They were all carved from a very light red volcanic stone scoria

• DEITY

• PUKAO

• TATANUA

• 'AHU 'ULA

a feather cloak or cape made of minute red or yellow bird feathers occasionally trimmed with black or green and formerly worn in Hawaii by high chiefs and kings

• AHU

• MALANGGAN

• TAPA

• 'AHU 'ULA

a geological structure where sets of intersecting closely spaced fractures, referred to as joints

• Tapa

• Ahu' ula

• Prismatic Column

• Malanggan