SAVE THE DATE. The yearly TAFS organised by the Oceanic Art Society will be held on Saturday 15 August 2020 in the historical buildings housing the National Art School in Darlinghurst. … [Read More...]
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Times Are A Changing
Metropolitan Museum of Art Te Maoriexhibition cover 1984. For more details, see page 3. In this issue of the of the OAS Journal we are fortunate to have Dr Maia Nuku, from the Metropolitan Museum … [Read More...]
Lost in transit
Lost in transit, Launceston, Tasmania. If anyone has any information concerning this woomera please contact John Hawkins via our contact page. A rare and early spear-thrower woomera– … [Read More...]
Tribal Art Fair Sydney (TAFS) Review – 2018
Dawn of a new era. The Tribal Art Fair Sydney-2018 was held on Saturday 21 July at a fabulous new venue: the heritage National Art School “Cell Block” building in Darlinghurst. A great success. This … [Read More...]
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The Story Keeps Unfolding
With so much information available in the modern digital age it sometimes feels that we know, collectively, almost everything. In this edition Professor Ian McNiven shows us that this is wrong and that something as simple as the geographic origin of an artefact is still a matter of research. In Ian’s thought provoking paper, Beyond Bridge […]
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Australian Museum’s Cultural Collections Centre Opens in Western Sydney
By Bill Rathmell, OAS President Half-a-dozen members of the Oceanic Art Society were present on 30th July at the opening of the “Cultural Collections Centre”- the new storage for the bulk of the Pacific Island collections of Sydney’s Australian Museum. Since its inception in 1995, the OAS has tried to lobby for this superb world-renowned […]
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Beyond bridge and barrier: Torres Strait and curious artefact distributions between Queensland and New Guinea
By Professor Ian J. McNiven, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, Monash University, Melbourne During the nineteenth century Europeans became increasingly aware of the extraordinary diversity of indigenous cultures across New Guinea and Australia. Along with such awareness was a desire by museums, especially in England, Europe, and […]
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Wylda Bayrón at Le Musée de la Castre, Cannes
by Chris Boylan Dominating the hill overlooking Cannes city and the Mediterranean is the ancient medieval castle and tower, now the ethnological museum, of Cannes, Le Musée de la Castre. The museum has a small, but very fine collection of Oceanic art including great Polynesian objects and early New Guinea pieces. An exhibition in the museum […]
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