List of Figures and Tables

Front Cover

“A watery shot of the island of Ambae under cloud and sunburst.” Photograph by John Patrick Taylor. Reproduced with kind permission of the photographer.

Figures

Figure 1.1

Map of Terra Australis Incognita (Polus Antarcticus). Amsterdam: De Wit, 1666

Figure 1.2

Man of the Island of Mallicollo by William Hodges, first version

Figure 1.3

Man of the Island of Mallicollo, final version, engraving by J. Caldwall after William Hodges

Figure 1.4

Map of Océanie by Levasseur after d’Urville’s ethnic divisions. Océanie, map attribution to Emile Levasseur, from Atlas universel de géographie physique (Paris: 1854)

Figure 2.1

Australia and the Pacific, showing conventional contemporary divisions of Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia

Figure 2.2

Recorded South Pacific voyages 1788–1840

Figure 2.3

Languages of the Eastern Outer Islands

Figure 2.4

Trade networks in the Santa Cruz Island group

Figure 3.1

Map of Vanuatu

Figure 3.2

Detail from “New Hebrides, Banks and Duff Groups, showing Discoveries of Quiros in 1606”

Figure 3.3

The Site of La Nueba Hierusalem and the Bay of San Felipe y Santiago. Detail from “Planos de las Bahías descubiertas el año de 1606, en las islas del Espíritu Santo y de Nueva Guinea y Dibujadas por D. Diego de Prado y Tovar en Igual Fecha” (Soc. Georgr. De Madrid, 1878)

Figure 3.4

“Modern time/space: distancing” – Fabian’s Plotting of the Other in the Pre-Modern and Modern Periods

Figure 3.5

Bougainville’s Tracks in 1768

Figure 3.6

Pandanus red textile from Ambae, plaited and dyed by women but worn by men (“Men’s mat singo tuvegi, Ambae, Vanuatu”)

Figure 3.7

The tracks of the Resolution and Adventure on Cook’s Second Voyage, 1774 (“Vanuatu/New Hebrides Islands, showing Cook’s track in 1774”)

Figure 3.8

“Woman of the Island of Tanna, drawn from Nature by William Hodges, engraved by James Basire” (likely William Blake in Basire's studio).

Figure 3.9

“Omai. Drawn from Nature by William Hodges, engraved by James Caldwall”. London: Wm. Strahan & Thos. Cadell, 1777

Figure 3.10

The late Bong or Bumangari Kaon of Bunlap in the 1970s

Figure 6.1

Map of d’Entrecasteaux’s voyage, 1791–4

Figure 6.2

“Sauvage des îles de l’Amirauté” (engraving)

Figure 6.3

“Homme du Cap de Diemen; Finau, chef des guerriers de Tongatabu” (engraving)

Figure 6.4

“Sauvage de la Nouvelle-Calédonie lançant une zagaie” (engraving)

Figure 8.1

Map of Papua or New Guinea

Figure 8.2

Detail from “Sketch Map of a Journey across the Island of Papua by J.A. Lawson”

Figure 8.3

“Mount Hercules”

Figure 10.1

The Anga groups in Papua New Guinea

Figure 10.2

The Ankave country

Tables

Table 2.1

Oceanic indigenous languages

Table 2.2

Eleven languages of the Santa Cruz Group

Table 2.3

Example possessive noun classes for “Papuan” languages Nendö and Äiwoo

Table 2.4

Sample of Polynesian borrowings into the non-Polynesian languages of the Santa Cruz Group

Table 2.5

Queensland plantation labour 1863–1906

Table 10.1

Administrative patrols in or around Ankave country (1929–1972)