PUBLICATIONS

(this section is still under construction)

In Magazines & Journals

2023. Hills, J., Chand, K., George, M., Huffer, E., Kruger, J., Samuwai, J., Soapi, K., and Smith, A., "Blue Heritage in the Blue Pacific" The Palgrave Handbook of Blue Heritage Eds. R Boswell, D OʻKane, J. Hills. Palgrave Macmillan ch. 16, pp 273-281 ISBN 978-3-030-99346-7 ISBN 978-3-030-99347-4 (ebook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99347-4

2023. Nuttall, Penny, George, Frain. Ed: Paul DʻArcy. “Ancient Voyaging Capacity and Technology in the Pacific.” The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean. January publication.

2022. George, M. “A Dynamic Pathway and Two Fences: Learning to Read An Interisland Swell Pattern. Royal Institute of Navigation News. pp 21 – 25. Nov./Dec.

2021. UNESCO Indigenous Knowledge and Knowledge Transmission: ANCESTRAL VOYAGING KNOWLEDGE IN OCEANIA: Pacific Womenʻs Knowledge.

2021. UNESCO Indigenous Knowledge and Knowledge Transmission:

ANCESTRAL VOYAGING KNOWLEDGE IN OCEANIA: Mobilizing Indigenous Knowledge for People, Ocean, Biodiversity and Climate.

2019. George, M. “Canoe House” Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World – Australasia and Oceania

EXPERIENCING MANA AS ANCESTRAL WIND. December, 2019, Mimi George. Time and Mind Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness, and Culture. 11:4, 385-407.

TE LAA O LATA: GAUGING PERFORMANCE OF A POLYNESIAN SAIL, December, 2017. Mimi George. Journal of the Polynesian Society. 126:4 377-415.

2014. Feinberg, R. and George M. “Seafaring in Polynesian Outliers,” in R. Feinberg and R. Scaglion (eds), Polynesian Outliers: The State of the Art, Ethnology Monographs 21. Pittsburg, PA: University of Pittsburg

2012. George, M. July, “Polynesian Navigation and Te Lapa – the Flashing” in Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture, Volume 5—Issue 2. pp. 135–174. Berg:N.J.

LATAʻS CHILDREN. June, 2017, Derek Ferrar. Hana Hou Magazine 102-105.

CHILDREN OF TAUMAKO. 2008. Renate Westner. originally posted on https://www.vaka.org

HOLAU KAVEIA. 2012. Marianne "Mimi" George. originally posted on https://www.vaka.org

THE RETURN OF LATA. Dr. Mimi George and Te Aliki Koloso Kaveia. Sailing New Zealand. Vol. 38, July, 1999

VAKA TAUMAKO: THE ART AND CRAFT OF A POLYNESIAN VOYAGING CANOE. Meph Wyeth. Pacific Arts Journal. July, 1999.

THE RETURN OF LATA. Dr Mimi George. Wooden Boat Magazine. Sept/Oct 2000

STONE AGE SAILS, SPACE AGE SHAPES, ANCIENT WISDOM. Gordon Grant. Canoe and Kayak Magazine.December 1998 p. 14.

AN ANCIENT SEAFARING TRADITION REBORN: THE VAKA TAUMAKOʻS FIRST VOYAGE. Meph Wyeth. Kaʻu Landing. February 1999, p. 13.

RESCUING ANCIENT SKILLS. Pauline Walker. Pacific Islands Monthly. September 1998, p. 52.

THE RETURN OF LATA: BUILDING AN AUTHENTIC POLYNESIAN VOYAGING CANOE. Dr. Mimi George. Sea History Journal. Spring 1998 (#84) p. 40

RETURN OF THE TEPUKE. Meph Wyeth. Solomons (Solomon Airlines inflight magazine), issue #25 (June, 1998) p. 34

LANCEMENT DʻUNE PIROGUE TRADITIONELLE POLYNESIENNE DE VOYAGE A TAUMAKO. Dr. Mimi George. Tahiti Pacifique. Mai 1999 (#97), p. 48

A CAUSE FOR CELEBRATIONS: OPEN HOUSE IN TAUMAKO. Meph Wyeth. Pacific Paddler. June 2002

In Newspapers

The Solomon Star (Honiara)

2 June, 1998, p. 2 Group on exchange project to Hawaii by Francis S. Pituvaka
5 June, 1998, p. 10 Duff Islanders revive canoe buiding…elders pass on seagoing lore, by Francis S. Pituvaka
10 June, 1998, Duff Islanders visit Hawaii by Francis S. Pituvaka
19 August, 1998, p. 5 (2 articles): Memorable day for Duff Islanders and Chief confident with Vaka Taumako
30 June, 1998, p. 4, Letter to the editor by Luke Ogrady Vakawi
2017 Holau Ndeni
2017 Holau Vanuatu
2018 Taiwan
2018 Holau Vanuatu

The Island Sun (Honiara)

xxxxx 2017

xxxxx2018

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The Garden Island News (Kaua’i)

4 February, 1998, Program sails into making Taumako canoes
19 June, 1998, Taumako chief links Kaua’i to distant heritage, by Brandon Sprague
18 September, 1998, Canoe project draws Kaua’i interest
4 February, 1999, Video re-lives maiden voyage of the Vaka Taumako, by Anne E. O’Malley
10 June, 1999, Canoe springs from the forest
12 August, 2000, by Healani Waiwai’ole
29 November, 2000, by Healani Waiwai’ole
26 April, 2007, Kaua`i Museum explores tradition of voyaging canoes by Keya Keita
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2019
2020

The Honolulu Advertiser

October 1995, Canoe-building Culture Tries to Survive by Jan TenBruggencate
12 November, 1997, Islanders Revive Canoe-Building by Jan TenBruggencate
14 September, 1998, Navigator Journeys Back in Time by Jan TenBruggencate
7 June, 1999, Chiefs Offer Kauai Canoe as Thanks by Jan TenBruggencate
7 January 2002, Kaua’i Canoe-Building Effort Revived by Jan TenBruggencate

The Kauai Times

11 September, 1996, Anthropologist Seeks Support for Polynesian Canoe Project by Susan Dixon
5 April, 1997, Traditional Solomon Designs Made for a Traditional Canoe
9 August, 1997, Taumako Set to Launch Canoes
18 October, 1997, Taumako Voyaging Canoe Sails
15 May, 1999, Voyaging Canoe Builders Share Skills with Kaua’i by Healani Waiwai’ole
28 April, 2007, Sailing with Lata: Kaua’i Museum Opening

Kauai Island Monthly

7 November, 2003, p. 2, Blue Water Sailing Aboard Gryphon by Anne E. O’Malley — Dr. Mimi George “talks story” about adventures aboard the Yacht Gryphon.

* Ka`u Landing

1999

IN BOOKS

Blue Heritage in the Blue Pacific, 2022
Jeremy Hills, Kevin Chand, Mimi George, Elise Huffer, Jens Kruger, Jale Samuwai, Katy Soapi, and Anita Smith. The Palgrave Handbook of Blue Heritage. p. 273-302

2021 in press: Ancient Voyaging Technology and Capacity in the Pacific. Peter Nuttall, Simon Penny, Marianne "Mimi" George, Sylvia Frain. CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN. Ed. Paul DʻArcy. (LINK WILL BE ACTIVATED WHEN PUBLISHED IN 2022)
Heirs of Lata M. George. VAKA MOANA: VOYAGES OF THE ANCESTORS, THE DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT OF THE PACIFIC. 2007. Ed. Howe . Auckland War Memorial Museum & U. of Hawaii Press, p. 128 and p. xxx.

Seafaring in the Polynesian Outliers, 2007, Richard Feinberg and Marianne "Mimi" George. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND MEDICINE IN NON-WESTERN CULTURES. Eds.

Seafaring in the Polynesian Outliers. Richard Feinberg and Marianne George. THE CONTEMPORARY PACIFIC. POLYNESIAN OUTLIERS: THE STATE OF THE ART. Eds. Richard Feinberg and Richard Scaglion. U of Hawaii Press, 2014

MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS

Sailing with Lata: The Original Polynesian Voyager April 28, 2007 – October 31, 2007 at Kaua’i Museum, Lihu’e, Hawai’I, 96766, USA

Simulation Hall of California Maritime Academy. 2005 - 2020

California State University at Chico. 2016 Anthropology Museum exhibit

TELEVISION

German National TV (ZDF) production “Polynesien Nomaden der Sudsee” for German television 2003 (N.B.: They made up their own silly story even though a real story had been agreed on. They never gave us the footage they promised. But in the film there is some lovely footage of Taumako vessels and community members.)

Voyagers. Castaways. BBC 2009. *N.B.: This film is mainly about animals and plants that moved across the ocean to islands. The title "Castaways" is not appropriate as description of the worldʻs most successful voyagers, whose heirs (practitioners of ancient navigational knowledge) have shown again and again how intentional and effective their methods are.