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Time Period

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  • from ancient times to present
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Essential Knowledge

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  • Art is created using available materials such as bone, shell, wood, coral, fiber, and stone
  • Australia was populated about 30,000 years ago. The islands were populated about 4,000 years ago. Europeans began arriving in the sixteenth century
  • Some objects symbolize family or clan history; others celebrate history and were meant to be destroyed afterwards
  • The Laptia culture began the Pacific pattern of migration, bringing their plants, animals, customs, and culture with them
  • Ship building and navigation became essential communication lines in the vast distances involved
  • Sculptures representing forces in the supernatural world were often wrapped to be protected. One’s mana or vital force needs to be defended and protected. Sometimes mana could represent a whole community. The act of protecting the mana through rituals or wrapping is called tapu.
  • Each community in the Pacific had a different way of conducting spiritual exercises and commanding a social structure
  • Ritual performances each have a different purpose: e.g., celebration, war
  • The act of performance contains the work’s meaning. The objects in that performance contain no meaning unless brought to life b the rituals
  • Rituals and performances often involve exchanging pre-arranged items that have symbolic value
  • A symmetry of relationship is often sought. Opposing forces, such as gender, are placed within a balancing situation in many rituals
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Nan Madol

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  • c. 700-1600
  • basalt boulders and prismatic columns
  • Pohnpei, Micronesia
  • Oceanic art
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Water and Architecture
    • Ryoan-ji
    • Gehry, Guggenheim Bilbao
    • Wright, Fallingwater
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Female deity

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  • c. eighteenth to nineteenth century
  • wood
  • Nukuoro, Micronesia
  • Oceanic art
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Navigation chart

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  • Marshall Islands
  • nineteenth to early twentieth century
  • wood and fiber
  • Oceanic art
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Utility
    • Ambum Stone
    • Ardabil Carpet
    • Pyxis of al-Mughira
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‘Ahu’ula (feather cape)

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  • late eighteenth century
  • feathers and fiber
  • Museum of the Americas, Madrid
  • Oceanic art
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Regalia
    • Ruler’s Feathered Headdress
    • Gold and Jade Crown
    • Ndop Contextual Photograph
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Staff god

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  • Rarotonga, Cook Islands
  • late eighteenth to early nineteenth century
  • wood, tapa, fiber, and feathers
  • British Museum, London
  • Oceanic art
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Hiapo (tapa) from Niue

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  • c. 1850-1900
  • tapa or bark cloth
  • freehand painting
  • Aukland War Memorial Museum, New Zealand
  • Oceanic art
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Abstraction
    • Braque, Portugese
    • Ambum Stone
    • Mehretu, Stadia II
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Tamati Waka Nene

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  • Gottfried Lindauer
  • 1890
  • oil on canvas
  • Aukland art Gallery, Aukland, New Zealand
  • Oceanic art
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Rulers
    • Houdon, George Washington
    • Wall plaque from Oba’s palace
    • Augustus of Prima Porta
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Malagan mask

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  • Papua New Guinea
  • c. twentieth century
  • wood, pigment, fiber, and shell
  • Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
  • Oceanic art
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Faces
    • Mblo
    • Roman Patrician
    • Reliquary of Sainte-Foy
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Buk (mask)

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  • Torres Strait
  • mid-to-late nineteenth century
  • turtle shell, woo, fiber, feathers, and shell
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  • Oceanic art
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Masks
    • Aka elephant mask
    • Olmec mask
    • Transformation mask
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Presentation of Fijan mats and tapa cloths to Queen Elizabeth II during the 1953-1954 royal tour

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  • 1953
  • multimedia performance
  • photographic documentation
  • Oceanic art
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Performance
    • Viola, The Crossing
    • Lukasa Memory Board
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Moai on platform (ahu)

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  • c. 1100-1600
  • volcanic tuff figures on basalt base
  • Easter Island (Rapa Nui)
  • Oceanic art
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‘Ahu ‘ula

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  • Hawaiian feather cloaks
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Moai

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  • large stone sculptures found on Easter Island
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Tapa

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  • a cloth made from bark that is soaked and beaten into a fabric

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