Content Area 9: The Pacific700 – 1980 CE

APAH – Valenzuela10 required works

Part I

Background & Essential Information

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Left: -Wood Shield

-Maker from Urapmin Village. Sepik District, Papau New Guinea

-ca.1903

Right: -Yagjagabula and Jabiringi (The Lightning Brothers)

-Wardman cultural region, Victoria River Valley, Northern Territory Australia

-Date Unknown

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What is the story you see in this dance / performance art from Tahiti?

Carved Maori Meeting house Waitangi Treaty grounds in New Zealand

Hawaiian Feather Capes

Melanesian Mask

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Part II

11 Required Works

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Left is one of two surviving carved figures from the Cook Islands from the 18th or early 19th Century. Similar in style to the staff-god figures.

Below: is the only surviving wrapped example of a staff god.

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Polynesian Tapa (bark cloth) is made in a similar fashion to traditional Baganda bark cloth from Uganda.

I’ve brought in samples for you from Uganda, and we will take time to do small ink designs on them when we are finished with this presentation.

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