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Post #2172 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Jun 11, 2002 8:17 AM

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The best source for Marquesan ancestor/tiki history are the works of archeologist Robert C. Suggs, the American authority on the Marquesas: "The Hidden Worlds of Polynesia","Lords of the Blue Pacific","The Island Civilizations of Polynesia", and recently "Manuiotaa-Journal of a Voyage to the Marquesas Islands" (2001 Pa'eke Press,Boise, Idaho), in which he recounts one of his many lecturing trips on the freighter Aranui (www.aranui.com).
Before him, the oral history of ancestor heros portrayed as tikis was recorded by Willowdean Handy and Karl Von Den Steinen.