
Moana
Robert J. Flaherty’s follow-up to Nanook of the North shifts from the Arctic to the South Seas, portraying Samoan village life with a painterly eye. Blending ethnographic detail with a romanticized “Gauguin idyll,” the film celebrates daily rituals, communal traditions, and the passage into adulthood, suffused with what Flaherty called “pride of beauty, pride of strength.”
- Year: 1926
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: Robert Flaherty Productions Inc.
- Keyword: south seas, indigenous, coconut, tattooing, samoa, polynesia, rite of passage, polynesian, oceania, 1920s, manhood, ethnographic film, tattoo art, dance ritual, native, marriage rite, docufiction, indigenous tribes, polynesian island
- Director: Robert Flaherty, Frances H. Flaherty
- Cast: Ta'avale, Fa'amgase, Tama, T'ugaita, Pe'a, Leupenga



















