Post #45221 by christiki295 on Wed, Jul 30, 2003 12:56 AM

True Bali is in Indonesia; however, I would also represent that Bali is also in Polynesia and that there is no longitudinal boundary to Polynesia.

The Night of the Tiki catalogue depicts tikis from the Phillipines next to tikis from Easter Island and the Cook Islands.

Also current Balinese culture is characterized by archetypal polynesian traits:

Bali has a strong religious belief which is closesly tied to the land and to ancestors, which is similar to native Hawiian traditions;

Bali has the Legong and Kecak dances whereas Hawaii has the hula;

Balinese build awe inspiring religious temples to obtain mana, just as the Easter Islanders built moai for mana for their clans; and

historical similarities also exist. Bail was controlled by the Dutch until the late 1940s and the US (Sanford Dole) took over Hawaii and imprisoned Queen Lili'uokalani in the early 1900s.