Oceanic Art Society
Promoting the understanding and appreciation of Oceanic art.
By Leif Birger Holmstedt The Department of Ethnography at the Danish National Museum has one of the largest and finest collections in the world of artifacts from Oceania, Melanesia and …
Edited by Ngahiraka Mason and Zara Stanhope. Auckland University Press in association with Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, 20l6. Reviewed by Marina Garlick This splendid tome complements a fascinating …
By W. D. Webster. Review by Crispin Howarth William Downing Webster (1868 – 1913) began collecting and dealing in arms, armour and ethnographic material from the 1890s until his death. …
The Oceanic Art Society is very pleased to announce the election of a new President, Dr. Bill Rathmell. Bill, and his wife, Noelle, have had a long association with the …
Peter McCabe will be presenting a lecture on: The Moon, the Stars and the Demon Shrimp: Deciphering Patterns in Beaded Aprons of Geelvink Bay, North West New Guinea A little …
At the University of Queensland Anthropology Museum. Review by Krisztina Turza. Since I missed the opening of the University of Queensland Anthropology Museum’s recent exhibition on the Solomon Islands as …
Solomon Islands – Re-enchantment and the Colonial Shadow Exhibition See linked article Dr. Diana Young, Director, University of Queensland Anthropology Museum, assembled the following notes on some of the more …
Australian National University, 27-28 January 2017. Review by Michael Gunn The ANU Humanities Research Centre, in partnership with the Centre of Collective Biography of Archaeology in the Pacific and the …
By Ruth McDougall, Curator, Pacific Art, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Geographically, the mainland of Papua New Guinea lies just 3.7 kilometres from the island of Saibai …
Richard Aldridge has produced a series of short documentaries on the art and culture of Papua New Guinea. These can be viewed on Youtube (see below for web address). In …
