Pacific presences. Volume 2, Oceanic art and European museums / edited by Lucie Carreau [and four others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carreau, Lucie, editor.

Series:

Pacific Presences Series

Pacific Presences Series ; v.4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Oceania.

Art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (514 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Sidestone Press, 2018.

Summary:

Hundreds of thousands of works of art and artefacts from many parts of the Pacific are dispersed across European museums. They range from seemingly quotidian things such as fish-hooks and baskets to great sculptures of divinities, architectural forms and canoes. These collections constitute a remarkable resource for understanding history and society across Oceania, cross-cultural encounters since the voyages of Captain Cook, and the colonial transformations that have taken place since. They are also collections of profound importance for Islanders today, who have varied responses to their displaced heritage, and renewed interest in ancestral forms and practices. This two-volume book enlarges understandings of Oceanic art and enables new reflection upon museums and ways of working in and around them. In dialogue with Islanders' perspectives, It exemplifies a growing commitment on the part of scholars and curators to work collaboratively and responsively. Volume II illustrates the sheer variety of Pacific artefacts and histories in museums, and similarly the heterogeneity of the issues and opportunities that they raise. Over thirty essays explore materialities, collection histories, legacies of empire, and contemporary projects.

Contents:

Intro

Introduction

Nicholas Thomas

Part one

Materialities

Fibre skirts: continuity and change

Erna Lilje

Shell money and context in Western Island Melanesia

Katherine Szabó

Aitutaki patterns or listening to the voices of the Ancestors: research on Aitutaki ta'unga in European museums

Michaela Appel and Ngaa Kitai Taria Pureariki

Unpacking cosmologies: frigate bird and turtle shell headdresses in Nauru

Maia Nuku

'Reaching across the Ocean': Barkcloth in Oceania and beyond

Anna-Karina Hermkens

'U'u: an unfinished inquiry into the history and adornment of Marquesan clubs

Part two

Collection histories and exhibitions

Haphazard histories: tracing Kanak collections in UK museums

Julie Adams

Inaccuracies, inconsistencies and implications: researching Kiribati coconut fibre armour in UK collections

Polly Bence

From Russia with love: Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay's Pacific collections

Elena Govor

Collecting procedure unknown: contextualizing the Max Biermann collection in the Museum Fünf Kontinente in Munich

Hilke Thode-Arora

Made to measure: photographs from the Templeton Crocker expedition

Lucie Carreau

German women collectors in the Pacific: Elizabeth Krämer-Bannow and Antonie Brandeis

Amiria Salmond

The illustration of culture: work on paper in the art history of Oceania

Two Germanies: ethnographic museums, (post)colonial exhibitions, and the 'cold odyssey' of Pacific objects between East and West

Philipp Schorch

Museum dreams: the rise and fall of a Port Vila museum

Peter Brunt

Part three

Legacies of empire

Kings, Rangatira and relationships: the enduring meanings of 'treasure' exchanges between Māori and Europeans in 1830s Whangaroa

Deidre Brown

An early Tongan ngatu tahina in Sweden.

Nicholas Thomas

Wilful amnesia? Contemporary Dutch narratives about western New Guinea

Fanny Wonu Veys

A glimmering presence: the unheard Melanesian voices of St Barnabas Memorial Chapel, Norfolk Island

The Titikaveka barkcloth: a preliminary account

'The woman who walks': Lucy Evelyn Cheesman and her collection from western New Guinea at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge

Katharina Wilhelmina Haslwanter

History and cultural identity: commemorating the arrival of British in Kiribati

Alison Clark

Makereti and the Pitt Rivers Museum, 1921‑1930, and beyond

Ngahuia te Awekotuku and Jeremy Coote

Part four

Contemporary activations

ARCHIVES Te Wāhi Pounamu

Areta Wilkinson and Mark Adams

Hoe Whakairo: painted paddles from New Zealand

Steve Gibbs, Billie Lythberg and Amiria Salmond

Toi Hauiti and Hinematioro: a Māori ancestor in a German castle

Wayne Ngata, Billie Lythberg and Amiria Salmond

Reinvigorating the study of Micronesian objects in European museums: collections from Pohnpei and Kosrae, Federated States of Micronesia

Helen Alderson

Knowing and not knowing

Alana Jelinek

Interview

Kaetaeta Watson, Chris Charteris, Lizzy Leckie and Alison Clark

Piecing together the past: reflections on replicating an ancestral tiputa with contemporary fabrics

Pauline Reynolds

Dairi Arua and Erna Lilje

'In Process'

Backhand and full tusks: museology and the mused

Rosanna Raymond

Epilogue

Endnotes

Select bibliography

Contributors' Biographies

Acknowledgements

Lege pagina.

Notes:

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ISBN:

90-8890-628-9

OCLC:

1062419527