Who Owns the Portrait of Omai
It was included in the Reynolds exhibition at Tate Britain in 2005. In 2012, an application for a second temporary export licence was refused, and the painting returned to the UK.
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Pacific
Maori Forts
The Maori were Polynesians who arrived in New Zealand about 600 years ago, just before Columbus discovered the Americas.
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The Tatoo: Pacific Origins
The facial tattooing from New Zealand was seen as very violent as it highlighted how many battles you’ve won or kills you’ve made. These were all recorded on the skin.
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The Hawaiian Kings
Dole’s descendants continued to run the Dole family firm for more than a century, which moved from sugar into pineapples and is still active today in the fruit industries across the region and in Latin America.
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Pitcairn Island
The history of the Pitcairn Islands begins with the colonization of the islands by Polynesians in the 11th century. The Polynesians established a culture that flourished for four centuries and then vanished. Pitcairn was settled again in 1790 by a group of British mutineers of the HMS Bounty and Tahitians.
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