Tournedos Pomare

Pomare celebrates the line of Tahitian monarchs who took over from the prior Teva dynasty of chiefs at the time of European discoveries in Polynesia. Pomare I, previously only a local chief, seized ascendancy by force of European arms, supplied to him in return for large quantities of pigs for the salt-pork trade with Australia. His descendants (including Queen Pomare Vahini IV, the most illustrious and long-reigning sovereign) ruled Tahiti until 1880 when the last monarch, Pomare V, donate