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23 Jan 2024
Ni sa bula vinaka. Sa dre ko Malolo.
There is a season for all things, and we are pausing our time here.
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11 Nov 2023
Typhoon Karen struck #Guam with winds of 280 km/h (170 mph) on November 11 1962.
Whilst only 11 people died in the storm, 95% of homes were damaged or destroyed, leaving at least 45,000 people homeless.
digitalpasifik.org/items/624… via @BPLBoston
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3 Sep 2023
On this day in in 1995, "more than 90 politicians from 9 national governments, including 30 Australian politicians, united with Tahitians to call for an end to French nuclear testing. Tahitian independence leader Oscar Temaru led the march."
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20 Jul 2023
La double-pirogue servait aux grands transports. (Ile des Pins)."
The postcard was issued by the "Missions Maristes de Nouvelle-Caledonie."
Source file: digitallibrary.usc.edu/CS.as… via @USCLibraries
#NewCaledonia 🇳🇨
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20 Jul 2023
This @RNZPacific special tells the story of the Coastwatchers, Pasifika people from across the islands who played their part in New Zealand’s defence system during World War II.
Check out the podcast, the video version and some behind the scenes content.
rnz.co.nz/programmes/coastwa…
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18 Jul 2023
A collection of various materials gathered about several Papuan languages spoken in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.
Collected by Don Daniels and available via @PARADISEC_Aus #oralhistories #spoken
catalog.paradisec.org.au/col…
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17 Jul 2023
The provenance of this item is unknown.
It may be a sample of "Ko Mamani mo Hono Ngaahi Me'a Fakaofo" (The Wonderous World), a weekly programme on Radio Tonga hosted by Mateaki-kihe-Lotu Heimuli. It is 11 minutes, 59 seconds long.
ngataonga.org.nz/search-use-… via @ngataonga 🇹🇴
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16 Jul 2023
We are looking for a new and improved Programme Manager.
This is NZ based & fixed term until June 2024.
You will be looking after a super team leading talanoa about digitised Pacific heritage.
And a website.
If you're keen, check the details:
fa-eqqg-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.o…
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13 Jul 2023
From May 2023, this celebration of Tuna Day, hosted in Tarawa, features #Kiribati versions of tasty tuna dishes.
youtu.be/jKii9nl6Wy8
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12 Jul 2023
Te nuota. Belt of human hair. The nuota is a waist ornament used as part of the adornment for Kiribati male dancers' costumes. The nuota is made with long lengths of flat 4-ply braided ira n atu (human hair)
Text via @aucklandmuseum
Image: @Te_Papa
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DigitalPasifik retweeted
8 Jul 2023
Celebrating Kiribati Language week. Listen to a Glibertese song ‘Teribaro’. on our website homepage.
Click on the audio player on the ""Celebrating Kiribati Language week" card. natlib.govt.nz
#PacificLanguageWeek @digitalpasifik @VikingRecords @Pacific_Peoples
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10 Jul 2023
The @ucsdlibrary holds Sylvester M. Lambert collection, with large numbers of photographs digitised and accessible.
Many are labelled like this one, "Women and girls in a building" with people of #Kiribati unnamed.
You can view the holdings online:
library.ucsd.edu/speccoll/fi… 🇰🇮
ALT Group of women and girls in a building
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9 Jul 2023
Filmed between "July 8, 1946–July 10, 1946" & before the Baker test of #OperationCrossroads this footage shows at the 7:54 mark a 'Native graveyard' & 'Two native graveyards on Bikini'
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
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8 Jul 2023
Kam na bane ni mauri!
You can check out the events and access resources for this Kiribati Language Week at the @Pacific_Peoples page: mpp.govt.nz/programmes/pacif…
Or follow them on FB: facebook.com/OfficialKiribat…
Kam rabwa!
ALT 9 July to 15 July, Te Taetae ni Kiribati. Kiribati Language Week 2023. Ribanan, karikirakean ao kateimatoan ara katei ma ara taetae ni Tungaru. Nurture, enhance and sustain the Tungaru language and culture.
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7 Jul 2023
"Reverend Bollen and seven local teachers of Maravovo, Solomon Islands"
Photographed in 1906, by J.W. Beattie.
digitalpasifik.org/items/105… via @nlagovau #SolomonIslands 🇸🇧
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DigitalPasifik retweeted
5 Jul 2023
Showed my 3-screen film “Mine Lands: for Teresia” at the Museum of Literature Ireland last night at the #PostExtractivistLegacies conference @UCD_Hum_Inst Banaba has such poignancy when viewed in a room filled with scholars & artists studying the impacts of mining across the 🌏
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4 Jul 2023
"June 1960. Paea, Tahiti. Modern thatched house."
This photograph is part of the Roy Rappaport collection, held @ucsdlibrary which has 2367 digital objects, recorded in Papua New Guinea, as well as French Polynesia, particularly Moorea and Tahiti.
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3 Jul 2023
Feohi'anga Ālonga 'Ia Kalaisi kava and vocal-instrumental collective performing 'Siueli Pasifiki' (Jewel of the Pacific).
This song was composed and put to music by the late Queen Sālote Mafile'o Pilolevu Tupou III.
youtu.be/-eMBMuo6CzY via @TheCoconetTV #Tonga 🇹🇴 @LagiMaama_
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2 Jul 2023
Wantok Niuspepa
Issue No. 1847 (January 13, 2010)
Digitised and available to download from @ucsdlibrary
#PapuaNewGuinea #TokPisin 🇵🇬
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1 Jul 2023
Filmed in February 1931, this 2:40 of surfing footage is from Hawaiʻi.
digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/c… via @uofscdigcoll
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