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A new era begins online for the OAS Journal

01/11/2016 By Elmslie James

After some years in the making, the Oceanic Art Society website is now up and running. This will change the nature of the organisation. While to date the primary mode of communication with members has been through the pages of this Journal, and previously the OAS Newsletter, increasingly it will be through the website and […]

Filed Under: Cover Story, V21 Issue 5

Unpacked: The Reverend Fellows collection of Trobriands art

01/11/2016 By Crispin Howarth

Public lecture by Crispin Howarth: Held at the National Gallery of Australia is a little known, rarely shown but very significant collection of Massim Art. Amassed in the late 19th century and for the best part of the 20th Century hundreds of objects lay hidden under a house, dozens of decorated clubs, piles of elegant […]

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Filed Under: Lectures, Members Only, V21 Issue 5

Behind the lens: Richard Aldridge and his Oceanic art series of short documentaries

01/11/2016 By Oceanic Art Society

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 this article Richard describes why he set out on this path and what he feels that he has achieved in his documentary, Malangan Culture and […]

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Filed Under: Documentaries, Members Only, V21 Issue 5

Jude Philp on the Macleay Museum’s Pacific collections

01/11/2016 By Oceanic Art Society

Lecture to Oceanic Art Society, Sydney, 14 September 2016. Report by Jude Philp In 1875 Maino of Mowatta welcomed William John Macleay’s Chevert expedition party to his village, and introduced him to the neighbouring  village of Tureture. The Chevert  stayed nearly  two weeks, as the various men of Macleay’s party and those of Maino’s village […]

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Filed Under: Lectures, Members Only, V21 Issue 5

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor – Part V

01/11/2016 By Craig Barry

By Barry Craig.  Continued from OAS Journal Vol.21 No.3. In this issue of the OAS Journal, I provide a short biography and a sample of the collections of: Walter Mansell Balfour Ogilvy and Harry Lort Spencer Balfour Ogilvy The two Ogilvy brothers from Renmark will be considered together but as Parts 5, 6. They both […]

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Filed Under: Members Only, Museums, V21 Issue 5

Parcours subjective

01/11/2016 By Oceanic Art Society

By Krisztina Turza, TurzaArt Tribal Gallery A short and subjective review of this year’s Parcours des Mondes. Short, because it will only focus on the art items via the many photographs enclosed, as opposed to going through the usual ‘Paris stuff’ and the general socio-economics (yes, generally tourists were better off this year on the […]

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Filed Under: Exhibitions, Members Only, V21 Issue 5

War trophies or curios?

01/11/2016 By Oceanic Art Society

By Barry Craig, Ron Vanderwal and Christine Winter, Museum Victoria, Melbourne, 281 pp. Review by Peter McCabe “Me been talk with you now, now you give three good feller cheers belongina new feller master. NO MORE ‘UM KAISER – GOD SAVE ‘UM KING”.  And with that the locals of Rabaul found out they were under […]

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Members Only, V21 Issue 5

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