Masks, sculpture, body art, puppets, wood carving, furniture, fiber art and textiles: Melanesian tribal art (New Guinea art and artifacts, Solomon Islands artefacts) and folk art from Indonesia and China

Art-Pacific (Carolyn Leigh - Ron Perry): Guide to Artifacts

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Guide to Artifacts

• Browse these short summaries which link to the original articles
• OR from the TOCs link directly to the original articles.
• If you want MASKS: New Guinea masks and Indonesian masks toc
• Melanesian art TOC | Map of art areas of Melanesia
  Papua New Guinea: Highlands: body art - Bundi tapa - jewelry/dancers | Karawari and Blackwater Rivers: masks - carvings - map | Massim: artifacts- Trobriand Kula - map | Kula canoe | New Britain: Baining - Sulka - Tolai dukduk | New Ireland: Malagan | Ramu River: masks - carvings - map | Sepik River: masks - carvings - villages - map | Papuan Gulf: masks - carvings - map - Gogodala - Angu (Kukukuku)
  other areas: Asmat | Solomon Islands: crafts - jewelry - map
  art and craft: barkcloth (tapa) | body art | cane and fiber figures | canoes and prows | jewelry/dancers | masks - Middle Sepik | phallocrypts | pottery - Chambri | shields | story boards | suspension hooks | weapons | yam masks - fiber | yam masks - wood
• Indonesian art TOC | Dyak baby carriers and masks | furniture | Java folk art | Lombok baskets | Lombok lontar boxes | masks from Bali and Java | puppets
  Artifacts from Papua (formerly Irian Jaya) are included in these articles:
  
  Asmat art | canoes and prows | phallocrypts | shields | weapons
• China: Bai textiles/art TOC | baby carriers | baby hats | woodblock prints
• Building a Collection

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Artifacts on this site were collected in the field by my husband, Ron Perry. I take the photographs, do the html, text and maps. Background in Who We Are. Art-Pacific has been on the WWW since 1996. We hope you enjoy our New Guinea tribal art and Indonesian folk art as much as we do.

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