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BUILD & NAVIGATE

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vessel CONSTRUCTION

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Te Nohoanga Te Matangi

 

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Papers –for live links to the papers below and others go tos "Media" and "Publications" on this site

Polynesian Navigation and Te Lapa – The Flashing  Time and Mind: Journal of Archaeology,  2013.

– reporting a light phenomenon unknown to science, its uses in navigation, and the ancient knowledge system taught by Te Aliki Koloso Kaveia of Taumako. 

Te Laa o Lata: Gauging Performance of a Polynesian Sail - Journal of the Polynesian Society.  2017

Experiencing Mana As Ancestral Wind - Time and Mind: Journal of Archaeology,           2018

We, the Voyagers: Our Vaka

part 1 of a documentary feature film series. January, 2020. Pacific Traditions Society

We, the Voyagers: Our Moana

part 2 of a documentary feature film series.. J

January, 2020. Pacific Traditions Society

Ancient Voyaging Capacity in the Pacific

The Cambridge History of the Pacific Series. 

(in press)

Navigating By Ancestors: Swells, Dilep, Te Lapa, and Science  (in press)

The Return of Lata:    New Zealand Sailing.

1999

The Heirs of Lata  

in Vaka Moana: 2006. p. xxx

Holau Kaveia: 

2012 https://www.vaka.org 

 

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