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Model of a mask, Op le meket sarik, originally made of turtle-shell.

Recording Kastom: Alfred Haddon’s Journals from the Torres Strait and New Guinea, 1888 and 1898

28/11/2021

2020, 378 pages, Edited by Anita Herle and Jude Philp. In association with the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge. Sydney University Press. Review by Crispin Howarth Alfred …

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Lesley Wengembo – Lecture

06/11/2021

Lesley Wengembo - lecture 6 November 2021 Sydney - Cultural Identity, Our Greatest Asset

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Margaret Cassidy | Indigenous material culture from my travels

03/09/2021

Live Event Presented by Margaret Cassidy Margaret Cassidy. OAS Journal Editor presents some personal favourites of Australian Aboriginal items collected across Australia.

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The Agile Art World

30/08/2021

Being agile and pivoting are words long associated with innovation and the tech world. However, they are now commonly being used in the art world to describe the quick responses …

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Massim canoes in the Milne Bay Province,Papua New Guinea

30/08/2021

by David Payne The traditional canoes of the Massim region of the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea (PNG) are colourful, stylish, and sophisticated. These traditional wooden canoes are …

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Man Who Cannot Die – Phantom Shields of the New Guinea Highlands – Book launch talk

30/08/2021

Chris Boylan These shields are from the New Guinea Highlands and a major feature is their colour. This is very much part of the New Guinea tradition to have colourful …

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Man Who Cannot Die – Phantom Shields of the New Guinea Highlands

29/08/2021

2021, 296 pages, Edited by Jonathan Fogel, with contributions from Chris Boylan, Bruce Cree, Hubert Langmann, Kevin Patrick, and Jessica Lindsey Phillips.  Sydney & Toronto: Boylan and Phillips. Reviewed by Noelle …

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Georgina Beier 1938 – 2021

29/08/2021

By Keith Jackson Georgina Beier, called the ‘founding mother’ of contemporary art in Papua New Guinea, died in Sydney on Sunday 11 July 2021 aged 82. Her husband, Ulli Beier …

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The Whole Picture

29/08/2021

Image: George Nuku, 2021, The red wall, lithographs of the Atlas du voyage de l’Astrolabe, reworked and polystyrene frame at Musée Hèbre Rochefort, France.  Photograph: Clémentine Débrosse. 2020, 304 pages, Alice Procter, Cassell Books, …

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Volume 26 – Issue 4

12/08/2021
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