'ana'ana publishing is established on Huahine, a Leeward Island of Tahiti, a gorgeous place home to poets, writers, artists ... known as the 'wild island': a magical island full of history and legends.
Tahitian Names for Babes: i'oa tahiti
An introduction to ma'ohi birthrites and name-giving in ancient and modern Tahiti
Throughout the pages of this delightful book, you will find hundreds of beautiful names for boys and girls translated from Tahitian into English.Tahitian Names for Babes: i’oa tahiti takes you through a cultural journey.Experience the beautiful words and sacred life of the ancients: age-old birth practices and methods of name choosing in ancient and modern Tahiti. With guidance for pronunciation, and translations that reveal the poetry of the Tahitian language, the reader will learn many Tahitian words and gain much cultural understanding.
Names are grouped under such titles as flora, water, dreamings, life-love-joy-music, finishing with historical and legendary names, including a very special section dedicated to the Polynesians who left Tahiti’s shores aboard the HMS Bounty bound for Pitcairn Island: the author's ancestors.
The book bursts with colour and designs by celebrated Tahitian tatau artist, Tihoti - and the beautiful 'mother and child' on the cover by Polynesian artist Bobby Holcomb.
Pitcairn Tapa
'Ahu no Hitiaurevareva
There is a forgotten chapter to the Bounty story.
It begins here.
The tapa cloth of Pitcairn Island illuminates the forgotten story of the Polynesian women of HMS Bounty. Pitcairn Tapa: 'Ahu no Hitiaurevareva rediscovers their beautiful bark cloths from museum archives around the world. These cloths are the surviving material evidence of those courageous women's lives.
Pauline Reynolds is a descendant of those women and leading authority on Pitcairn tapa. She lives on Huahine, Tahiti Nui. Her book offers new insights into one of the world's most remarkable tales of survival; the story of the Polynesian women of HMS Bounty. A bilingual publication (English and French) which illustrates how the 'Pitkern' language began and evolved from Tahitian and English as the women made bark cloth.
All orders receive a gift of a tapa bookmark made on Huahine.
