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March 22, 2019 | Janet Alison Hoskins

Cultural History In Focus | “So My Name Shall Live: Stone-Dragging and Grave-Building in Kodi, West Sumba” by Janet Alison Hoskins

Dancers at a Funerary Feast | Lamboya, West Sumba | 1947 © Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands — Dancers at a Funerary Feast | Lamboya, West Sumba | 1947
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands

March 20, 2019 | Editorial Team

What’s Next | Maori Markings: Ta Moko at National Gallery of Australia

Warrior chief Te Rauparaha | Early 19th century NGA 78.95 © National Gallery of Australia — Warrior chief Te Rauparaha | Early 19th century
NGA 78.95
© National Gallery of Australia

March 18, 2019 | Leonard Yuzon Andaya

Cultural History In Focus | “The Social Value of Elephant Tusks and Bronze Drums among Certain Societies in Eastern Indonesia” by Leonard Yuzon Andaya

Naga Panel | Alor © Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands — Naga Panel | Alor
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands

March 16, 2019 | Steven G. Alpert

Cultural History In Focus | “Indonesian Shields” by Steven G. Alpert from “Protection, Power, and Display: Shields of Island Southeast Asia and Melanesia” | Boston College Museum of Art

Mentawai Headmen with European Guest | 1892-1922 © Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands — Mentawai Headmen with European Guest | 1892-1922
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands

March 14, 2019 | Editorial Team

Resource Spotlight | Werner Forman Archive | Tribal Arts from Outer Indonesian Islands, West Papua, & East Malaysia

Dayak Charms | Borneo © Werner Forman Archive | Formerly Philip Goldman Collection, London — Dayak Charms | Borneo
© Werner Forman Archive | Formerly Philip Goldman Collection, London

March 7, 2019 | Michel Thieme

Cultural History In Focus | “Writing So Subtle…” by Michel Thieme

Lake Sentani in 1903. © Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands — Lake Sentani in 1903.
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands

March 5, 2019 | Editorial Team

Resource Spotlight | Oxford Asian Textile Group

Lau Pahudu Fragment | Sumba © Yale University Art Gallery — Lau Pahudu Fragment | Sumba
© Yale University Art Gallery

February 27, 2019 | Astri Wright

Cultural History In Focus | “‘Ikat’ As Metaphor For ‘Iban’: Women Artists’ Creative, Ritual, and Social Powers in Borneo” by Astri Wright

Cultural History In Focus | “'‘Ikat’ As Metaphor For ‘Iban’: Women Artists’ Creative, Ritual, and Social Powers in Borneo” by Astri Wright Art of the Ancestors

February 26, 2019 | Editorial Team

What’s Next | Oceania at Musée du Quai Branly

Canoe prow figure Nguzunguzu; wood, pigments, resin, shell; 16,5 x 9 x 15,5 cm; Marovo Lagoon, New Georgia Archipelago, Solomon Islands; collection Eugen Paravicini 1929. (PHOTO: Derek Li Wan Po; 2013; all rights reserved)

February 25, 2019 | Stuart Rome and Steven G. Alpert

Meeting of Minds | Stuart Rome, Guggenheim Award-Winning Photographer

© Stuart Rome

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