PlayLab PlayDate: Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month Storytime 

Shared Stories, Shared Future:  An Educator Symposium on AANHPI Histories

Field Summer Institute for Educators

Field Museum Connections: AANHPI Stories & the TEAACH Act Workshops

Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month 

Sitting on a couch, Mojina Mote holds a framed photo of herself as a young girl.

Home Is Where the Jaki Is

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72 years later, Field Museum staff presented Mojina Mote, who now lives in Enid with her son Terry, with a print of the photo.

Na Bula, Fiji's Crown of Thorns

Cultures of the Pacific

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Network mapping of the genetic relationships of islanders in the southwest Pacific (Figure 7 from Terrell, John Edward. 2010. Social network analysis of the genetic structure of Pacific Islanders.  Annals of Human Genetics 74: 211-232)

A three-quarter view of the front of the Maori Meeting HouseCarvings decorate the house’s walls and beams. At the apex of the gabled roof are two carved faces. One is Ruatepupuke, for whom this house is named.

Maori Meeting House, Ruatepupuke II

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Maori Meeting House Ruatepupuke II

Amerika Samoa exhibition co-curator, Reggie Meredith Fitiao works on a community-made siapo (painted cloth) featured in the temporary exhibition located in the Regenstein Halls of the Pacific.

Amerika Samoa

Regenstein Halls of the Pacific

On the city's lakefront to perform a chant to greet the sunrise, Chicago-based Hula practitioners gather around an `ipu heke, a traditional Hawaiian percussion implement made of two gourds.

Chicago’s Legacy Hula

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Deborah Bekken

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TEAACH Act Panel

Pepeha (For Non-Māori)

Zine Instructiosn

Community Guide Instructions

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Chicago's Legacy Hula Virtual Tour

Bayanihan: Unity in Community

Chicago's Chinatown Coloring Pages

AANHPI Teacher Reference Guide

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Harris Loan Experience Box

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Chicago's Chinatown Community Guide

Creating a Poupou (Ancestor Panel) 

Maori Wharenui

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The Māori Meeting House: A Living Ancestor (Student Copy-English/Spanish)

The Māori Meeting House: A Living Ancestor

2. Exploring The Field Guides

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Exploring Artifacts from the Pacific | Exploring the Field Guide

Early Pacific Collections

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Malanggan (also malagan) figure - carved and painted wooden bird with outstretched wings holding a serpent in its beak from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.  Catalog Number 967.98641.  Received from J. F. G. Umlauff.  © The Field Museum, A110311c, Photographers* Ron Testa and Diane Alexander White.*

Contemporary Pacific Collections

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A part of dress called kiekie, an ornamental girdle worn by women in the Kingdom of Tonga around the waist and over a skirt or tupenu (wrapped garment) underneath.  This kiekie was purchased for the Museum’s collections *by Regenstein Collections Manager Christopher J. Philipp in 2010.  Temporary Number T2010.0017.  © The Field Museum, Photographer Christopher J. Philipp.

Polynesian Collections

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Detail of mahau - exterior porch panels from Ruatepupuke II – wharenui – Maori meeting house from Tokomaru Bay, New Zealand. Catalog Number 967.143961. © The Field Museum, A109973_15c, Photographer Ron Testa.

Media for Anthropology Alliance

Field Museum Connections: AANHPI Stories and the TEAACH Act

Chicago's Chinatown 

Māori Meeting House Lesson Plan

Pacific Anthropology at the Field Museum

Museum Loan Network: Pacific Instruments Collection

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RattleIdiophonePacific Musical InstrumentsShells (13), beads, fiber cordCat 1072.112266

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Cultures of the Pacific: Partnerships

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