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The Savage Club OAS Forum a Stunning Success

13/11/2017 By James Elmslie

The OAS Forum, held at the Melbourne Savage Club on October 21st, was a fantastic success and the Victorian members of the OAS, especially Dr. Michael Martin, are to be most heartily congratulated. The venue was superb; the speakers all truly world class and the food and company unsurpassable. Indeed it is fair to say […]

Filed Under: Cover Story, V22 Issue 5

Navigating for a ples namel: Between the Museum, Collections, and Communities

13/11/2017 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

Image of the Australian Museum

Saturday 11 November 2017 – OAS Lecture as part of our AGM.  10:00am registration, AGM 10:30am, 11:00am lecture in The Australian Museum. Michael A. Mel will be presenting an illustrated talk on Navigating for a ples namel: Between the Museum, Collections, and Communities This paper focuses discussion on museums with cultural objects that were obtained […]

Filed Under: Lectures, V22 Issue 5

Dr Hugh Gallagher

13/11/2017 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

Vale Dr Hugh Gallagher OAS is sad to announce the passing of another of its founding members who remained with us until the last, Dr Hugh Gallagher, 29.09.1929 – 12.09.2017. Hugh was OAS Member Number 153. Hugh was an avid collector of Oceanic Art with a fine eye for excellence.  He donated generously to the […]

Filed Under: In Memoriam, V22 Issue 5

David Tribe

13/11/2017 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

David Tribe

Vale David Tribe OAS mourns the loss of one of its founding and staunchest members, David Tribe, OAS Member number 66, who passed away in Sydney 30 May 2017 aged 85. In 1960s London, he enjoyed a varied career, creatively, as an intellectual, and as a secular activist. David returned to Sydney in the 1970s. […]

Filed Under: In Memoriam, V22 Issue 5

OAS Forum at the Savage Club, Melbourne

13/11/2017 By James Elmslie

Matthew Magers successfully bidding for the OAS Savage Club Forum official poster

By Jim Elmslie Dr. Ross Bowden gave an overview of the Savage Club collection, noting that very little documentation exists concerning the origins of the works but that most are from the nineteenth century, with some works of great quality and rarity. Two sources that were recorded were the famous anthropologist and Director of the […]

Filed Under: Forums, V22 Issue 5

‘Parcours’ Pittoresque à Paris Vaut le Voyage

13/11/2017 By Noelle Rathmell-Stiels

Rue Visconti

By Noëlle Rathmell-Stiels In its sixteenth year, the Parisian Tribal Art fair has taken visitors on a voyage of discovery to new horizons, sailing from Polynesia to the borders of contemporary art. From 12 to 17 September 2017 a total of sixty-six exhibitors, predominantly from France, Belgium and the USA, opened their treasure chests in […]

Filed Under: Art Fairs, V22 Issue 5

Mugus – the terrible blind god, the lord of pigs – a unique sculpture from Papua New Guinea

13/11/2017 By Crispin Howarth

By Crispin Howarth, Curator, Pacific Arts, National Gallery of Australia Since the mid-1920s, this masterpiece of Oceanic sculpture with its gently twisting elongated torso, oversized hands and stout powerful legs was displayed in a small museum at the Lutheran Wartburg Theological Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa. The museum is a celebration of missionary work by Americans in […]

Filed Under: Research, V22 Issue 5

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