Stats: APAH - Pacific Artworks

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Hint	Artwork	% Correct
Donned only by male high-ranking chiefs and warriors	'Ahu 'ula	100%
Protects the wearer and their mana	'Ahu 'ula	100%
Translates to "mask"	Buk	100%
Features a bird at the top	Buk	100%
Worn over the head like a helmet	Buk	100%
Contains feathers from the Southern Cassoway (a ferocious bird that's like basically a dinosaur)	Buk	100%
Uses horizontal lines to indicate body parts like kneecaps, navel, and waistline	Female deity	100%
Material made from mulberry tree bark that is beaten and pasted together	Hiapo from Niue	100%
Artist, using stencils and dye, to paint the design	Hiapo from Niue	100%
Have prominent foreheads, large broad noses, and thin pouting lips	Moai on platform (ahu)	100%
Short, thin arms that reach the hips	Moai on platform (ahu)	100%
Backs are tattooed with designs	Moai on platform (ahu)	100%
Some contain topknots	Moai on platform (ahu)	100%
White coral used to "open" the eyes	Moai on platform (ahu)	100%
Almost always male and facing inland	Moai on platform (ahu)	100%
Resource depletion and ecological crises facilitated decline in society and toppling of monuments	Moai on platform (ahu)	100%
Material makes it lightweight, waterproof, and bouyant	Navigation Chart	100%
Would be memorized before a voyage; could only be read by certain individuals	Navigation Chart	100%
Occured during Queen Elizabeth II's visit to Fiji as part of her 1953-1954 royal tour (visit British colonies)	Presentation of Fijian mats and tapa cloths to Queen Elizabeth II	100%
Afterward occurred the Kava ceremony in which Queen Elizabeth II drank psychedelic tea (effects of mild cannabis) with locals	Presentation of Fijian mats and tapa cloths to Queen Elizabeth II	100%
13-foot-long column-like wooden core in the form of an elongated body	Staff God	100%
Brought upright in village common spaces	Staff God	100%
Atop features a large carved head as well as smaller figures	Staff God	100%
Once had a phallus attached to the side antipodal to the head; remove by missionaries	Staff God	100%
Has elaborate tā moko (facial tatooing) which was common on men of high status	Tamati Waka Nene	100%
Natives may interpret as an embodiment of a spirit and a link between past and present	Tamati Waka Nene	100%
Features red, as it is the color of royalty	'Ahu 'ula	50%
Combination of human and animal forms	Buk	50%
Made by the Torres Strait (water passageway between Australia and New Guinea) region	Buk	50%
Combined with a larger grass costume and used in ceremonies about death, fertility, male initation, or to ensure a good harvest	Buk	50%
The human face may represent a cultural hero or ancestor	Buk	50%
Uses a turtle shell (unique to the region) which has great rarity and importance	Buk	50%
Kept in a religious building and represented individual deities	Female deity	50%
Like Shiva as Lord of Dance (Nataraja), could be dressed and adorned with flowers	Female deity	50%
Designs interpretted symbolically; many have rich meanings and histories	Hiapo from Niue	50%
Mask indicates relationship to a clan or living relatives	Malagan mask	50%
Involved in an expensive undertaking by the families of the subjects; often families combine wealth to honor several at once	Malagan mask	50%
After the ceremony involving this work, the free are absolved from obligation to serve the dead	Malagan mask	50%
Contains sacred platforms made of stone mixed with cremated ashes	Moai on platform (ahu)	50%
Below is a cemetery in which elders are buried	Moai on platform (ahu)	50%
Collection of 92 artificial islands connected by canals	Nan Madol	50%
Made of prismatic basalt	Nan Madol	50%
Acted as capital of the Saudeleur Dynasty of Micronesia	Nan Madol	50%
Designed for the king to keep an eye on the upper class and seperate them from the lower class	Nan Madol	50%
Curved outer walls given the symbolic appearance of a boat	Nan Madol	50%
Called wapepe in the Marshall Islands	Navigation Chart	50%
Important due to the low lying islands that are hard to see from a distance	Navigation Chart	50%
Diagonal lines indicates ocean and wind swells	Navigation Chart	50%
Horizontal and vertical lines provide structure for the object	Navigation Chart	50%
Multimedia performance performed in 1953	Presentation of Fijian mats and tapa cloths to Queen Elizabeth II	50%
Tapa used is decorated according to local traditions: sometimes stenciled, sometimes printed or dyed	Presentation of Fijian mats and tapa cloths to Queen Elizabeth II	50%
Predominated by themes of male and female reproduction	Staff God	50%
Only surviving wrapped example of this kind of work	Staff God	50%
An oil painting	Tamati Waka Nene	50%
Subject is a Maori chief	Tamati Waka Nene	50%
Painted posthomously based on a photograph by John Crombie	Tamati Waka Nene	50%
Has an oversized greenstone earring which contains his mana	Tamati Waka Nene	50%
Artist was a journeyman and tradesman painter who worked on comission	Tamati Waka Nene	50%
Uses coloring, modeling, and shading	Tamati Waka Nene	50%
Westerners often interpret the painting as a comercial adventure with monetary value	Tamati Waka Nene	50%
Others interpret the work as a record of vanishing culture, work of anthropology, or expressions of colonial dominance	Tamati Waka Nene	50%
Made of thousands of bird feathers, driving some of them (such as the 'o'o) to near extinction	'Ahu 'ula	0%
Made by the Hawaiians	'Ahu 'ula	0%
Tied together with coconut fibers	'Ahu 'ula	0%
Features yellow, as it is prized for its rarity	'Ahu 'ula	0%
Artists would chant the wearer's ancestor when crafting to imbue their power onto it	'Ahu 'ula	0%
Ceremonies a part of involved fire, drum beats, and chanting	Buk	0%
Ceremones involved in often recreated mythical ancestral beings	Buk	0%
Sculpture with simple geometric forms	Female deity	0%
Has an erect pose with long arms, broad chest, large buttocks, and no facial features	Female deity	0%
From Niue in Polynesia; generally made by women	Hiapo from Niue	0%
Name is a regional dialect meaning the same as tapa	Hiapo from Niue	0%
The design is often repainted to enhance the visual effect	Hiapo from Niue	0%
Extremely intricate mask carvings with adept use of negative space	Malagan mask	0%
Painted in black, yellow, and red: important colors denoting violence, war, and magic	Malagan mask	0%
Sculptures of the deceased commissioned by the living family representing an individual soul	Malagan mask	0%
Has a large haircomb reflecting hair style of the time	Malagan mask	0%
Ceremonies involving this are in order to aid the deceased to the otherworld	Malagan mask	0%
The work is often destroyed or left to rot after being used	Malagan mask	0%
Located on Rapa Nui (Easter Island)	Moai on platform (ahu)	0%
Ears reach to the top of their heads	Moai on platform (ahu)	0%
Represented the personalities deified deceased	Moai on platform (ahu)	0%
Said that figures "walked" to site (likely meaning via many people with ropes pushing and pulling figure to move it)	Moai on platform (ahu)	0%
Located in Pohnpei, Micronesia	Nan Madol	0%
Built on a lagoon–– like Venice	Nan Madol	0%
Has high seawalls that act as breakwaters (coastal defense)	Nan Madol	0%
Arranged southwest to northeast to take advantage of trade winds	Nan Madol	0%
Used ashlar masonry	Nan Madol	0%
Had many different sections for different purpose	Nan Madol	0%
A wooden chart of a large area of sea	Navigation Chart	0%
Has cosmetics which includes scent	Presentation of Fijian mats and tapa cloths to Queen Elizabeth II	0%
Involves chanting, movement, and mats made of pandanus / hibiscus fiber	Presentation of Fijian mats and tapa cloths to Queen Elizabeth II	0%
Made in Rarotonga in the Cook Islands of central Polynesia	Staff God	0%
Wrapped with a tapa cloth	Staff God	0%
Smaller figures have their legs spread, indicating childbirth	Staff God	0%
Soul of the god is represented by polished pearl shells and red feathers placed inside the bark cloth	Staff God	0%
Contextual image shows work being thrown down as the people are adopting a different faith (Christianity)	Staff God	0%
Contextual image provides only evidence of how the work was originally used	Staff God	0%
Painted in New Zealand	Tamati Waka Nene	0%
Made by Gottfried Lindauer in 1890	Tamati Waka Nene	0%
Its artist was originally from Bohemia of the Austrian Empire but moved to New Zealand	Tamati Waka Nene	0%
Subject is a convert to Wesleyan faith (evangelical Protestant demonination	Tamati Waka Nene	0%
Holds a tewhatewha (ceremonial staff of his culture) that has dangling feathers and an eye on the handle	Tamati Waka Nene	0%
Wears a kiwi feather cloak	Tamati Waka Nene	0%
Has European-style painting elemtns	Tamati Waka Nene	0%
Uses atmospheric perspective	Tamati Waka Nene	0%

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