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Title The Navigators : pathfinders of the Pacific / producer and screenwriter, Sanford Low ; directors, Sanford Low, Boyd Estus
Published Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources, ©1983

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Description 1 online resource (1 streaming video (59 min.))
Series Ethnographic video online
Summary Follows archaeologists as they seek clues to the origins and achievements of ancient Polynesian seafarers. Shows the excavation of a powerful voyaging canoe on the Tahitian island of Huahine, early sailing routes in Fiji, and traces of Hawaii's first settlers on Molokai
Analysis Micronesian
Pacific Islander ethnic groups
Cultural change and history
Innovation and invention
Ocean voyages
Tribal and national groups
Rural population
Ethnosociology
Canoes and kayaks
Bardon, Geoff
Event Filmed in 1976
Notes Subtitles in English
Print version record
Subject Prehistoric peoples -- Polynesia
Navigation -- Polynesia
Boats, Prehistoric -- Polynesia
Antiquities.
Boats, Prehistoric.
Navigation.
Prehistoric peoples.
SUBJECT Polynesia -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89006472
Subject Polynesia.
Genre/Form Streaming video
Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Nonfiction films.
Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Nonfiction films.
Documentaires.
Films ethnographiques.
Films autres que de fiction.
Form Streaming video
Author Low, Sam
Estus, Boyd
Anderson, William
Gochman, Len
Piailug, Mau
Vaughan, Palani
Documentary Educational Resources (Firm)
Other Titles Pathfinders of the Pacific