AUSTRONESIANS

Mabuhay. Aloha. Welcome to my Austronesian heritage event site  honoring Asian-American Pacific Islander Heritage Month. For today's sketching event, Jessie Sung and I will take you on a visual journey through an exotic medley of countries and cultures encompassing parts of Southeast Asia, the South Pacific, Madagascar, and Easter Island. it is important to note that Austronesia encompasses nations and territories predominantly populated by Austronesian-speaking people (over 500 million). It is NOT a race or ethnicity, but rather a collective group of people who share a common language family. Map of Austronesia,

What makes the Austronesians special people are their very colorful and uniquely patterned costumes, polytheistic beliefs in ancestral spirits, range of practices such as head-hunting, elaborate tattooing, seafaring skills on uniquely designed organic boats, and of course the construction of impressive monuments like the all familar monoliths of Easter Island.

• For the morning session, focus on the people of Austronesia: their smiling faces, native costumes, or at work doing a daily activity in their natural habitat.
• For the afternoon session, focus on the dances, rituals, warrior training, Oceanic artwork, multi-hull boats, or cultural monuments/icons, archeology of a particular territory, country, or region of Austronesia.

A Brief History of Austronesia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvAwYX_pR8Y

The People of Austronesia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzsdVUEYzu4

History of Austronesia (background information & Great Photos)
https://kids.kiddle.co/Austronesian_peoples
https://amedleyofpotpourri.blogspot.com/2018/08/austronesian-peoples.html

All About Austronesian Culture
https://austronesianorigin.wixsite.com/austronesianorigin/culture

Melanesian Festival of Arts and Culture 
https://anywayinaway.com/photography/papua-new-guinea/melanesian-festival/

T-H-E  P-E-O-P-L-E
Maori
Melanesia
Madagascar
Taiwan
Philippines
Easter Island
The Trobriand Islands
Native Hawaii
The Polynesian People-Faces

AUSTRONESIAN  ART
Oceanic Ancient Art
Polynesian Art
Pacific Islands Fertility Figures
The Art of Oceania
Scholar Space-Hawaii
Indo-Pacific Voyaging At

AUSTRONESIAN DANCES
Tahitian     Maori     Hula     Polynesian   Warrior Hula
History of Hula   Philippine Kalinga &  Cordillera

UNDERSTANDING the LANGUAGE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H49-O5Pwc-U
https://www.mustgo.com/worldlanguages/austronesian-language-family/

LOST ANCIENT CITY of NAN MANDOL
(World Heritage Site-UNESCO)
https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/nan-madol?phrase=nan%20madol&sort=best

SKIN STORIES- Origins of Tattooing
https://www.pbs.org/skinstories/history/
https://thediplomat.com/2016/11/sacred-ink-tattoos-of-polynesia/

TAPA CLOTH MAKING
(made from inner bark of mulberry and fig trees)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdHOf1Q6GEE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTYg06CtxGw
https://mnch.uoregon.edu/collections-galleries/tapa-cloth

web site by Cecilia Evasco for
NYC URBAN SKETCHERS
May 15, 2021