Resource Spotlight | “The Art of the Pacific Islands” by Peter Gathercole, Adrienne L. Kaeppler, and Douglas Newton

 

Turtle Shell Mask | Papua New Guinea, Torres Strait
© The British Museum

 
 
 

The Art of the Pacific Islands

 
 

by Peter Gathercole, Adrienne L. Kaeppler,
& Douglas Newton

 
 

This resource is generously provided by the National Gallery of Art, Washington.

 

Sacred Flute Stopper | Papua New Guinea
© Penn Museum

House Post | Lake Sentani, West Papua
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen

Mask | Vanuatu
© Penn Museum

Memorial Figure | Uli | New Ireland
© The Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University

Double Figure | Korwar | West Papua
© Brooklyn Museum

Figure | West Samoa
© The British Museum

Goddess Figure | Cook Islands, Aitutaki
© Museum Fünf Kontinente

Whale Bone Pendant | Hawaii
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Figure | Massim, Papua New Guinea
© The British Museum

Double Headed Figure | Society Islands
© The British Museum

Shield | Solomon Islands
© Brooklyn Museum

Figure | Kiwai Island, Papua New Guinea
© The British Museum

Ancestor Figure | Korwar | West Papua
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen

Double Figure House Post | Lake Sentani, West Papua
© National Gallery of Australia

Suspension Hook | Papua New Guinea
© Penn Museum

Pectoral (rei miro) | Easter Island (Rapa Nui)
© The British Museum

Feathered God | Hawaii
© Weltmuseum Wien

Mask | West Papua
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen

Fisherman's God | Cook Islands
© The British Museum

Standing Male Figure | Rarotonga, Cook Islands
© The British Museum

Figure | East Sepik Province, Karawari River, Papua New Guinea
© Saint Louis Art Museum

Painted Bark Cloth (Maro) | Lake Sentani, West Papua
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen

Feathered Cape | Hawaii
© Weltmuseum Wien

Bark Cloth Figure | Easter Island (Rapa Nui)
© National Museums Northern Ireland

Bark Cloth (kapa) | Hawaii
© Weltmuseum Wien

 

Colophon

Author | Peter Gathercole, Adrienne L. Kaeppler, Douglas Newton
Publisher | National Gallery of Art, Washington
Date of Publication | 1979

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