Publications available from the OAS

This is the first survey of Oro art ever published and incorporates more than 200 photographs and illustrations from the world’s leading museums

This is the first comprehensive compilation on the war shields of Melanesia. The volume illustrates more than one hundred types of shields from all culture areas of Melanesia that used such objects. Approximately eighty percent of the shields illustrated in the book have never appeared in print. The editors describe why the use of fighting […]

Chris Boylan & Anna Edmundson. published by the Macleay Museum, at the University of Sydney. The book has been published to coincide with the exhibition Adornment: jewellery, dress and body decoration from Australia and the Pacific at the Macleay Museum at the University of Sydney being held in conjunction with the Oceanic Art Society of […]