Oct 1980
VOLUME 11 - NUMBER 10
S. Pacific Arts Festival in Papua New Guinea
Fiji and Micronesia
Maori Tangata
Melanesian Masks
Tahiti Maohi Drama
Artists of Guam and Hawaii
Cover. Jade (nephrite) fish-hook pendant made by Maori craftsman in the 19th century, from Taranaki, New Zealand. Photograph by Brain Brake.
The Pacific is stunning in its immensity: it comprises one-third of the Earth’s surface and exceeds the total of the globe’s combined land area. Yet only 500,000 of its 64 million square miles make up what are known as the Pacific Islands. And the giant island New Guinea represents 60% of the total, followed by New Zealand with 20%. The remaining 100,000 square miles are divided among more than 10,000 islands. These islands and Australia, collectively known as Oceania, are the subjects of this special regional issue.
Distinctions are finer than demographics can suggest among Oceania cultures. They are broadly distinguished by ethnogeographic categories: Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. Within this frame our special issue looks at Papua New Guinea and Fiji, both in Melanesia, and the mask art of the region as a whole. We visit Ponape and Yap in the U.S. Trust Territories of Micronesia and get close-up views of Guam through the lens of a local photographer. The Polynesian arts of dramatic dance (Tahiti), Maori carving (New Zealand) and tattooing (Samoa) are reviewed. Running through the issue is the subsidiary theme of Asians in the Pacific: Indians in Fiji, the Chinese in the goldfield days of Australia and New Zealand, and Japanese culture in Hawaii.
Fred S. Armentrout
FEATURES
Jack Goldfarb. Fiji’s Fire-Defiers
Fred S. Armentrout. S. Pacific Arts Festival, This Sing Sing Bilong Yumi
Robert F. Kay. Village Life on Viti Levu
Robert Kiener. Ponape and Yap – Micronesia’s Maxi-States
Trevor Bayliss. Tangata, the Maori Vision of Man
Kathleen Berrin. Melanesian Masks
Fred S. Armentrout. A Tale of Two Tahitis
Kathryn Cronin. Chinese on the New Gold Mountain
Alan Taylor. Gold and Race in the Land of the Long White Cloud
Shapiro’s Guileless Look at Guam
Balzs Szabo-Eclectic as Hawaii
PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
Robert F. Kay. Fiji’s Global Village
Alan Taylor. The Samoan Art of Tattooing
Book Review: Exploring the Visual Art of Oceania by Sydney m. Mead(editor)
VOLUME 11 - NUMBER 10
S. Pacific Arts Festival in Papua New Guinea
Fiji and Micronesia
Maori Tangata
Melanesian Masks
Tahiti Maohi Drama
Artists of Guam and Hawaii
Cover. Jade (nephrite) fish-hook pendant made by Maori craftsman in the 19th century, from Taranaki, New Zealand. Photograph by Brain Brake.
The Pacific is stunning in its immensity: it comprises one-third of the Earth’s surface and exceeds the total of the globe’s combined land area. Yet only 500,000 of its 64 million square miles make up what are known as the Pacific Islands. And the giant island New Guinea represents 60% of the total, followed by New Zealand with 20%. The remaining 100,000 square miles are divided among more than 10,000 islands. These islands and Australia, collectively known as Oceania, are the subjects of this special regional issue.
Distinctions are finer than demographics can suggest among Oceania cultures. They are broadly distinguished by ethnogeographic categories: Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. Within this frame our special issue looks at Papua New Guinea and Fiji, both in Melanesia, and the mask art of the region as a whole. We visit Ponape and Yap in the U.S. Trust Territories of Micronesia and get close-up views of Guam through the lens of a local photographer. The Polynesian arts of dramatic dance (Tahiti), Maori carving (New Zealand) and tattooing (Samoa) are reviewed. Running through the issue is the subsidiary theme of Asians in the Pacific: Indians in Fiji, the Chinese in the goldfield days of Australia and New Zealand, and Japanese culture in Hawaii.
Fred S. Armentrout
FEATURES
Jack Goldfarb. Fiji’s Fire-Defiers
Fred S. Armentrout. S. Pacific Arts Festival, This Sing Sing Bilong Yumi
Robert F. Kay. Village Life on Viti Levu
Robert Kiener. Ponape and Yap – Micronesia’s Maxi-States
Trevor Bayliss. Tangata, the Maori Vision of Man
Kathleen Berrin. Melanesian Masks
Fred S. Armentrout. A Tale of Two Tahitis
Kathryn Cronin. Chinese on the New Gold Mountain
Alan Taylor. Gold and Race in the Land of the Long White Cloud
Shapiro’s Guileless Look at Guam
Balzs Szabo-Eclectic as Hawaii
PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
Robert F. Kay. Fiji’s Global Village
Alan Taylor. The Samoan Art of Tattooing
Book Review: Exploring the Visual Art of Oceania by Sydney m. Mead(editor)
VOLUME 11 - NUMBER 10
S. Pacific Arts Festival in Papua New Guinea
Fiji and Micronesia
Maori Tangata
Melanesian Masks
Tahiti Maohi Drama
Artists of Guam and Hawaii
Cover. Jade (nephrite) fish-hook pendant made by Maori craftsman in the 19th century, from Taranaki, New Zealand. Photograph by Brain Brake.
The Pacific is stunning in its immensity: it comprises one-third of the Earth’s surface and exceeds the total of the globe’s combined land area. Yet only 500,000 of its 64 million square miles make up what are known as the Pacific Islands. And the giant island New Guinea represents 60% of the total, followed by New Zealand with 20%. The remaining 100,000 square miles are divided among more than 10,000 islands. These islands and Australia, collectively known as Oceania, are the subjects of this special regional issue.
Distinctions are finer than demographics can suggest among Oceania cultures. They are broadly distinguished by ethnogeographic categories: Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. Within this frame our special issue looks at Papua New Guinea and Fiji, both in Melanesia, and the mask art of the region as a whole. We visit Ponape and Yap in the U.S. Trust Territories of Micronesia and get close-up views of Guam through the lens of a local photographer. The Polynesian arts of dramatic dance (Tahiti), Maori carving (New Zealand) and tattooing (Samoa) are reviewed. Running through the issue is the subsidiary theme of Asians in the Pacific: Indians in Fiji, the Chinese in the goldfield days of Australia and New Zealand, and Japanese culture in Hawaii.
Fred S. Armentrout
FEATURES
Jack Goldfarb. Fiji’s Fire-Defiers
Fred S. Armentrout. S. Pacific Arts Festival, This Sing Sing Bilong Yumi
Robert F. Kay. Village Life on Viti Levu
Robert Kiener. Ponape and Yap – Micronesia’s Maxi-States
Trevor Bayliss. Tangata, the Maori Vision of Man
Kathleen Berrin. Melanesian Masks
Fred S. Armentrout. A Tale of Two Tahitis
Kathryn Cronin. Chinese on the New Gold Mountain
Alan Taylor. Gold and Race in the Land of the Long White Cloud
Shapiro’s Guileless Look at Guam
Balzs Szabo-Eclectic as Hawaii
PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
Robert F. Kay. Fiji’s Global Village
Alan Taylor. The Samoan Art of Tattooing
Book Review: Exploring the Visual Art of Oceania by Sydney m. Mead(editor)