Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les Corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée

Hidden diversity in high‐latitude Southern Hemisphere environments: Reinstatement of the genus Rama and description of Vandenhoekia gen. nov. (Cladophoraceae, Ulvophyceae, Chlorophyta), two highly variable genera

“…Records of Cladophora polyacantha reported from New Zealand (Dunedin, Stewart Island; see Chapman, 1954) most likely represent V. subantarctica instead. Also, subantarctic records of the South African species Cladophora virgata might actually be V. subantarctica (Adams, 1994;Montagne, 1845). The third species of Vandenhoekia, V. tasmanica, is one of very few known records of Chaetomorpha-like algae from the subtidal; the only other species is the poorly known Chaetomorpha mawsonii, which is endemic to Antarctica, the Balleny Islands, and the south Shetland Islands (Pellizzari et al, 2017;Wiencke & Clayton, 2002).…”

Adorning the Ears: On Marquesan Ear Ornamentation

“…He most likely meant a pair of pūtaiana, as he describes Marquesan men as wearing "pendants made with a shell and a carved fish tooth." 57 He collected one pair of these and a pair of haakai as well. 58 Besides Dumont d'Urville, who describes the spurs of pūtaiana as finely carved and at times decorated with small human heads, other officers also remark upon the decoration.…”

The Rahui: Legal pluralism in Polynesian traditional management of resources and territories

“…It is important to remember to what extent the notion of impurity is relevant for our study: this blood is powerful -a lifeblood -and therefore dangerous, but not impure; otherwise, how could we understand this incredible Marquesan custom: 'While a high-society girl is giving birth for the first time, major male relatives prostrate themselves in such a way that the young woman is sitting on their heads as the baby is delivered; they are all covered with the same sheet' (Crook, P., 1990. Life in the Marquesas Islands, Missionaries ' Narratives, 1797-1842. Uvea-Wallis, published by Te Fenua Foou, 1990; 'If the sick woman is an atapeïu, a matron bites off the newborn's cord, those who attend the scene get the squirting blood on their heads, and the blood must touch only one sacred object' (that is, ha'a-te-pei'u, a woman of noble birth, Radiguet, M., 1978Radiguet, M., (1860 16 'Canoes are taboo for women, and women are prohibited from boarding them when they are afloat, and even from touching them when they are towed on dry land.…”