What is it about?
This article recounts an incident in 1973 in which many of the dynamics of early contact between European sailors and Pacific Islanders appear to have played out. Over a three-day period, through a combination of extortion and some very tough negotiations, islanders acquired a variety of highly valued commodities from a Taiwanese fishing.
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Why is it important?
It helps to supply a missing piece in the puzzle of early contact including the likely motivations of actors on all sides of the encounter.
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This page is a summary of: Early European-Polynesian contact reenacted, American Ethnologist, February 2006, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2006.33.1.114.
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