Pasifika Archival Collection
Material Culture Archive
Our material culture archive showcases items from throughout Oceania that tell the stories of community, identity, and tradition. Through these pieces, it highlights how our cultures are expressed, preserved, and passed down from generation to generation.
Cultural items from Oceania housed in the archive. Photo by K. Carlos-keliikipi.
Pacific Resource Library
Our growing Pacific resource library contains literature, poetry, ethnographies, children's books, and general references on Oceania. All materials can be made available for reference within the lab space. Contact us to view our full collection through our Zotero library.
Pacific literature and books from the resource library.
Material Culture & Ethnobotanical Collection
LEI PUPU LEHO
Pupu leho (Cowrie Shell)
Hawaiʻi
NGATU (Tapa Cloth)
Paper mulberry bark, natural dyes
Tonga
SIAPO (Tapa Cloth)
Paper mulberry bark, natural dyes
Samoa
PAHU
Laʻau niu and ʻIli Mano (coconut wood and shark skin)
Hawaiʻi
VOIVOI
Dried pandanus leaves
Fiji
KATO MOSIKAKA
Launiu (Coconut fibers)
Tonga
WALL HANGING
Cowrie shells, palm fibers Kapingamarangi, K]olonia, Pohnpei, FSM
WOVEN TRAY
Louʻakau and launiu (pandanus and palm leaf)
Tonga
KATO TUAʻNIU
Louʻakau and Launiu (pandanus and palm leaf)
Tonga
KATO TUAʻNIU
Louʻakau and Launiu (pandanus and palm leaf)
Tonga
KATO TUAʻNIU
Louʻakau and Launiu (pandanus and palm leaf)
Tonga
NGATU (tapa cloth)
Paper mulberry bark, natural dyes
Tonga