An Entity of Type: PhysicalEntity100001930, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

The culture of the Cook Islands reflects the traditions of its fifteen islands as a Polynesian island country, spread over 1,800,000 square kilometres (690,000 sq mi) in the South Pacific Ocean. It is in free association with New Zealand. Its traditions are based on the influences of those who settled the islands over several centuries. Polynesian people from Tahiti settled in the Cook Islands in the 6th century. The Portuguese captain, Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, made the first recorded European landing in the islands in the early 17th century, and well over a hundred years later, in the 18th century, the British navigator, Captain James Cook arrived, giving the islands their current name. Missionaries developed a written language, bringing schools and Christianity to the Cook Islands in

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • The culture of the Cook Islands reflects the traditions of its fifteen islands as a Polynesian island country, spread over 1,800,000 square kilometres (690,000 sq mi) in the South Pacific Ocean. It is in free association with New Zealand. Its traditions are based on the influences of those who settled the islands over several centuries. Polynesian people from Tahiti settled in the Cook Islands in the 6th century. The Portuguese captain, Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, made the first recorded European landing in the islands in the early 17th century, and well over a hundred years later, in the 18th century, the British navigator, Captain James Cook arrived, giving the islands their current name. Missionaries developed a written language, bringing schools and Christianity to the Cook Islands in the early 19th century. Cook Islands Māori, also known as Māori Kūki 'Āirani or Rarotongan, is the country's official language. The Culture Division of the Cook Islands Government supports and preserves the country's national heritage. One of the popular traditional dances of the Cook Islands is the Ura, a sacred ritual usually performed by a female who moves her body to tell a story, accompanied by intense drumming by at least five drummers. The craft of the locals can be seen in dresses, sarongs, and jewellery crafted with local products, such as shells, and an important practice among women is tivaevae, a type of quilting. Typical cuisine consumed in the Cook Island is fresh seafood such as octopus or clams, lamb or suckling pig, and fresh fruit, especially coconut. Rugby union and bowling are popular sports, and the islands hosted the 1986 Pacific Cup and the 1998 Polynesia Cup. The House of Ariki (Are Ariki) offers dignity but limited power to the ariki, historical chiefs in the islands' social hierarchy. (en)
  • La culture des Îles Cook fait partie de l'aire océanienne et se rattache au sous-groupe polynésien. L'influence européenne qui accompagna sa colonisation et son indépendance la marqua fortement. (fr)
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 40816287 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 27255 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1079682028 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:align
  • right (en)
dbp:caption
  • Makea Karika Ariki and nobles of the Makea Karika tribe. (en)
  • Arikis at the opening of the 39th Annual General Meeting of the House of Ariki. (en)
  • Wooden carvings of a Staff god and a Slab god . (en)
  • High priest at Arai-te-Tonga marae with the pillar stone of investiture. (en)
dbp:direction
  • vertical (en)
dbp:footer
  • Left: colourful pareu. Center: stone sculpture. Right: shell necklaces. (en)
dbp:height
  • 1680 (xsd:integer)
  • 1700 (xsd:integer)
dbp:image
  • Artifacts from the Cook Islands.jpg (en)
  • Cook Islands Ariki.JPG (en)
  • Makea Karika Tavaki with Ngati Karaka elders.jpg (en)
  • Pareu .jpg (en)
  • Shell necklaces .jpg (en)
  • Stone sculpture, Rarotonga, Cook Islands.jpg (en)
  • High priest with the initiation stone in Arai-te-Tonga, Rarotonga.jpg (en)
dbp:totalWidth
  • 320 (xsd:integer)
dbp:width
  • 130 (xsd:integer)
  • 240 (xsd:integer)
  • 750 (xsd:integer)
  • 900 (xsd:integer)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • La culture des Îles Cook fait partie de l'aire océanienne et se rattache au sous-groupe polynésien. L'influence européenne qui accompagna sa colonisation et son indépendance la marqua fortement. (fr)
  • The culture of the Cook Islands reflects the traditions of its fifteen islands as a Polynesian island country, spread over 1,800,000 square kilometres (690,000 sq mi) in the South Pacific Ocean. It is in free association with New Zealand. Its traditions are based on the influences of those who settled the islands over several centuries. Polynesian people from Tahiti settled in the Cook Islands in the 6th century. The Portuguese captain, Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, made the first recorded European landing in the islands in the early 17th century, and well over a hundred years later, in the 18th century, the British navigator, Captain James Cook arrived, giving the islands their current name. Missionaries developed a written language, bringing schools and Christianity to the Cook Islands in (en)
rdfs:label
  • Culture of the Cook Islands (en)
  • Culture des îles Cook (fr)
rdfs:seeAlso
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License