The Contemporary Pacific, September 22nd, 2001
Vaka Taumako: The First Voyage. 17 minutes, 1999, VHS (NTSC), color. Producer: Juniroa Productions. Vaka Taumako Project Archive and Research Center, Lihu`e, HI. US$20. (Both films available as a set for US$35.)
Taumako is the main island of the Duff Group in the Solomon Islands' Temotu Province. Like their well-documented Polynesian compatriots on Tikopia and Anuta, two hundred miles to the south-southeast, Duff Islanders are remote from centers of governmental authority and economic development; and like Tikopia and Anuta, this community of approximately five hundred people has retained m...
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