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The Story Keeps Unfolding

03/09/2019 By James Elmslie

PNG highlands dancer

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 […]

Filed Under: Cover Story, V24 Issue 3, Volume 24

Australian Museum’s Cultural Collections Centre Opens in Western Sydney

03/09/2019 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

Margaret White, of the Australian Museum

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 […]

Filed Under: Museums, V24 Issue 3, Volume 24

Beyond bridge and barrier: Torres Strait and curious artefact distributions between Queensland and New Guinea

03/09/2019 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

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 […]

Filed Under: Research, V24 Issue 3, Volume 24

Wylda Bayrón at Le Musée de la Castre, Cannes

03/09/2019 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

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 […]

Filed Under: Exhibitions, V24 Issue 3, Volume 24

Massim Canoes – drawings of the unique outrigger canoes from the Solomon Seas

03/09/2019 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

Tasman Light Gallery, National Maritime Museum, Sydney – 1 August to 29 September 2019 The Massim culture of Papua New Guinea is home to a unique collection of colourful outrigger […]

Filed Under: Expeditions, V24 Issue 3, Volume 24

Sepik Ramu Art

03/09/2019 By James Elmslie

Edited by Kevin Conru. 296 pages illustrating 170 objects from three private collections. Photographs by Hughes Dubois. Edition limited to 500 copies, €295. Conru Editions, released in May 2019. Review […]

Filed Under: Book Reviews, V24 Issue 3, Volume 24

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