Polynesian culture

Polynesian spiritual practice

Neolithic archeological culture

thumb|300px|, an ancient marae constructed of stone on in the Society Islands of [[French Polynesia, restored in 1994]]

thumb|A Māori people|Māori man painting a tattoo on a carved wooden tiki at [[Whakarewarewa model village, New Zealand, ]] thumb|upright|Hawaiian kii at Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park thumb|upright|Tiki statuette from the [[Marquesas]]

barkcloth made in the island cultures of the Pacific Ocean

Māori watercraft, usually canoes

Polynesian traditional concept denoting something holy or sacred

large marae complex at Opoa in Taputapuatea, on the south eastern coast of Raiatea

culture in the Hawaiian Islands preceding the unification of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi in 1810

practices and beliefs of the Māori people of New Zealand

statue from Easter Island

The '''''' (, ; ) were the traditional nobility of the Hawaiian islands. They were part of a hereditary line of rulers, the . There were many classes of (or chief) and the position could be held by a man or a woman.

thumb|Leiomano made with tiger shark teeth Early 19th-century Hawai'ian leiomano|thumb thumb|Leiomano knuckle duster at the [[Los Angeles County Museum of Art.]] The leiomano is a shark-toothed club used by various Polynesian cultures, primarily by the Native Hawaiians.

thumb|right|250px|Magimagi sennit of [[Fiji around wooden ceiling posts.]]