Art of Pacific Cultures by Kate Richardson

Australia


Untitled (1957), Mawalan Marika

Melanesia


Fragments of a large Lapita jar (1200-1100 BCE)

Papua New Guinea


Tamberan house


Tamberan sculpture

Irian Jaya


Asmat ancestral spirit poles (mbis)

New Ireland






Tatanua masks

Micronesia




Nan Madol, Pohmpei

Polynesia

Easter Island






Moai ancestor figures

Marquesas Islands




War club, (Early 19th century)

Hawaii




Tapa


Feather cloak of Chief Kiwala'o

New Zealand


Painting by Sydney Parkinson


Maori meeting house

Recent Art in Oceania


Man's Love Story (1978), Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri