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benlizross <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> wrote:

: The question is not whether you can find
: cultural similarities between the NW coast and parts of Polynesia (eg
: the Maori and the Kwakiutl both built large wooden houses and excelled
: at wood carving), but whether those parallels have to be explained by
: some direct historical connection.

So what is the alternative to direct historical connection?

: On the third point, as was explained during the earlier exchange: The NW
: coast bark beaters broke down cedar bark into fibres. These fibres were
: then used for a variety of purposes, including twining to make into
: capes etc. Polynesian tapa beaters flattened and spread the inner bark
: of Broussonetia papyrifera and other plants, and bonded pieces together,
: to make a thin, paper-like fabric (tapa, bark cloth). Very little tapa
: was made in NZ, since the bark-cloth plants didn't grow well. The Maori
: twined capes mentioned in the earlier post were probably made from NZ
: flax, but it's possible that some were made from bark. If the twining
: techniques were the same in the two areas,

Yes, they were.

: that would be a different matter from the question of bark cloth.

So if the Maori twined capes were not bark cloth, what were they then?
Any more mindless stonewalling and obfuscation?

Yuri. 

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