chapter twenty
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Arts of the Pacific and of teh AmericasTRANSCRIPT
Visual Arts TodayVisual Arts TodayChapter Twenty: Arts of the Pacific
and of the Americas
Sarah Greening Elizabeth GalanPaola Quijada
Pacific CulturesPacific Cultures
Duk Duk MaskersDuk Duk Maskers
East New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
Ahu NaunauAhu Naunau
Stone figures on Ahu Naunau, Anakena, Easter Island
(Rapanui), Chile
Feather CloakFeather Cloak
Hawaii, Feathers. Fiber height 5’9” The British Museum,
London.
Duk Duk Maskers Deku Scrubs
Deku Scubs first appeared in The Legends of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. They have a plant
like body and have the ability to shoot deku nuts.
The dukduk society belong to the Tolai people of New Britain. Their costume of
leaves represent nature and natural order of things.
MesoamericaMesoamerica
Colassal HeadColassal Head
Olmec, 1500-300 B.C.E. Basalt, height c. 8’. Museo de Antropologia, Veracruz
Pyramid of the SunPyramid of the Sun
Teotichuacan, Mexcio, 50-200 C.E.
Sarcophagus LidSarcophagus Lid
From the temple of inscriptions, Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico.
Maya, late Classic period, 684 C.E. Limestone
Pyramid of the Sun St. Joseph’s Church