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Marquises or
Marquises [maʁkiz];
Marquesan: Te
Henua ʻEnana (North
Marquesan) and Te
Fenua ʻEnata (South
Marquesan), both
meaning "the land of men")...
- into two groups,
North Marquesan and
South Marquesan,
roughly along geographic lines. The most
striking feature of the
Marquesan languages is
their almost...
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settlers of Hawaii, Tahiti, Rapa Iti and
Easter Island, was
settled by
Marquesans,
believed to have
departed from the
Marquesas as a
result more frequently...
- The
Hatutu Marquesan warbler (Acrocephalus
percernis postremus), also
called the
Hatutu Polynesian warbler or the long-billed
Polynesian warbler, is a...
- The
Marquesan kingfisher or
Marquesas kingfisher (Todiramphus godeffroyi) is a
species of bird in the
family Alcedinidae. It is
endemic to
French Polynesia...
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archaeological excavations. Due to
their rarity, they were
venerated by the
Marquesans and were
closely ****ociated with the high
chiefs and
priestly classes...
- as
Marquesan, Tahitian, Māori, Rapa Nui (the
language of
Easter Island), and less
closely to
Samoan and Tongan.
According to Schütz, the
Marquesans colonized...
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Alticus simplicirrus, the
Marquesan rockstripper, is a
species of
combtooth blenny found in the
central Pacific Ocean,
around the
Marquesas Islands. This...
- is one of the five main
Polynesian tattoo styles (the
other four are
Marquesan, Samoan,
Tahitian and Hawaiian). Tohunga-tā-moko (tattooists) were considered...
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Temetiu is the
South Marquesan name for the
highest peak of the
mountain ridge that
rises above the
western end of Ta'a Oa (the Bay of Traitors) in southwestern...
