luaus and visitor-oriented live shows in the Hawaiian Islands and other Pacific-rim resorts outside Tahiti. Modern interpretations include costumes fashioned of contemporary man-made materials (polyester films such as mylar, or synthetic twines) substituting for plant-fiber or natural materials, and costume coloration such as fluorescent pinks and greens or mirror-reflective surfaces difficult to obtain or maintain from purely natural resources. Modern drum accompaniments may include drums of European- or non-Pacific construction, improvised percussion instruments of modern materials (e.g. high-density polyethylene or metallic commercial food packaging), and the use of prerecorded drum reinforcement soundtracks. See also Polynesian culture References Patrick O'Reilly; La danse à Tahiti. Dances of Tahiti