My Dawning Star

A collection of poems in the tateni or praise-poem style of Cook Islands poetry.

The Cook Islands, 1820-1950
By Richard Phillip Gilson
Agriculture of Samoa , Cook Islands and Fiji ' , Massey Agri . cultural College Bulletin 20 . pp . 12 - 25 . Palmerston North , New Zealand . Proceedings of the Cook Islands Legislative Council , 1947 - 50 . Rarotonga .
Patterns of the Past: Tattoo Revival in the Cook Islands
By Therese Mangos, John Utanga
Supplemented with over 250 contemporary and historical images of traditional Cook Islands design and heritage art, this is a vivid, beautiful and important work.
The Book of Puka-Puka
By Robert Dean Frisbie, Anthony Weller
"In 1924, Robert Frisbie arrived on the island of Puka-Puka, one of the most remote in the South Pacific, to run a trading post.
Tatau
By Jean Tekura Mason
At times incisive and descriptive, and at others deeply moging, this book is a collection of poems which is both retrospective perceptive"--Back cover
Tivaivai: The Social Fabric of the Cook Islands
By Susanne Küchler, Andrea Eimke
Written from both an anthropological and an artistic perspective, this book examines the visual and cultural characteristics that have made the Polynesian quilt one of the most stunning and captivating art-forms to emerge from the Pacific.