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Buck, Peter. "Chapter 12. The Northeastern Radial" [Discussion of Marquesan Traditions and Culture.] Vikings of the Pacific. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1959.

Dening, Greg. Islands and Beaches: Discourse on a silent Land: Marquesas 1775-1880. Chicago: Dorsey Press 1980.

Handy, E.S. Craighill. Marquesan Legends. Honolulu: Bishop Museum 1930.

Handy, E.S. The Native Culture in the Marquesas. Honolulu: Bishop Museum 1923.

Handy, Willowdean Chatterson. Tattooing in the Marquesas. Honolulu: Bishop Museum 1922.

Langridge, Marta, trans. Von den Steinem's Marquesan Myths. Canberra: Target Oceania / The Journal of Pacific History 1988.

Linton, Ralph. Archaeology of the Marquesas Islands. Honolulu: Bishop Museum 1925.

Melville, Herman. Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life During a Four Months' Stay in a Valley of the Marquesas. London 1846.

Ottino, Pierre and Marie-Noelle de Bergh-Ottino. Hiva Oa: Glimpses of an Oceanic Memory. Department Archeologie, Centre Polynesien des Sciences Humaines 1991.

Rolett, Barry. "Chapter 1: Voyaging, Colonization, and Cultural Change in East Polynesia." Hanamiai: Prehistoric Colonization and Cultural Change in the Marquesas Islands (East Polynesia). Ms. In Press, Yale University Publications in Anthropology.

Rolett, Barry. "Marquesan Prehistory and the Origins of East Polynesian Culture." Journal de la Societe des Oceaniste 1993. 96(1): 29-47.

Rolett, Barry. "Turtles, priests, and the afterworld: a study in the icnonographic interpretation of Polynesian Petroglyphs." [A Discussion of Marquesan Petroglyphs and their Religious Context.] Island Societies: Archaeological Approaches to Evoluion and Transformation. Patrick V. Kirch, ed. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press 1986.

Sinoto, Yoshiko H. "The Marquesas" in the Prehistory of Polynesia, Jesse D. Jennings, ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 1979.

Suggs, Robert C. The Archaeology of Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. New York: Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History 49: 1-205.

Suggs, Robert C. The Hidden Worlds of Polynesia. New York: Harcourt, 1962.

Tahiti Tourist Promotion Board. "Marquesas Islands Guide" 1992.

Thomas, Nicholas. Marquesan Society: Inequality and Political Transformations in Eastern Polynesian. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1990.