Tahitians

E250043

Tahitians are an Indigenous Polynesian people native to the island of Tahiti and surrounding islands in French Polynesia, known for their rich seafaring, artistic, and ceremonial traditions.

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Label Occurrences
Tahitians canonical 4

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous people
Polynesian language
Polynesian people
ethnic group
colonizedBy France
continent Oceania
diaspora Metropolitan France
New Caledonia
United States of America
surface form: United States
ethnicityOf Tahiti
historicalContactWith European explorers
knownFor artistic traditions
canoe navigation
ceremonial traditions
dance
music
seafaring traditions
tattooing
language Tahitian language
languageFamily Austronesian languages
nativeTo French Polynesia
Society Islands
Tahiti
notableExplorerContact James Cook
oceanRegion South Pacific Ocean
partOf Austronesian peoples
Polynesians
populationCenter Papeete
primaryCountry France
primaryTerritory French Polynesia
relatedEthnicGroup Native Hawaiians
surface form: Hawaiians

Māori
Samoans
Tongans
religion Protestant Christianity
surface form: Protestantism

Roman Catholicism
traditionalClothing pareo
traditionalCraft tapa cloth making
wood carving
traditionalFood breadfruit
coconut-based dishes
poisson cru
taro
traditionalHousing thatched houses
traditionalPoliticalStructure chiefdoms
traditionalReligion Polynesian indigenous religions
surface form: Polynesian religion

ancestor worship
traditionalSocialStructure clan-based society
writingSystem Latin alphabet

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Polynesians hasSubgroup Tahitians
Mangarevans relatedEthnicGroup Tahitians