In art, a design made by sticking one material over another. Photomontage involves photographs being pasted together and overlaid, sometimes mixed with newspaper and magazine cuttings. This technique was very popular with the Dadaists, and more recently with David Hockney. In cinema, the technique of montage puts together a number of images to produce an independent meaning.
Blue stands for the Pacific Ocean. The yellow stripe represents the Equator. The points of the star symbolize the island's 12 original tribes. Effective date: 31 January 1968.