Pacific Websites


THE ARTS & MATERIAL CULTURE

 

AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND-BASED SITES

ABC Arts Online

Alexander Turnbull pictures collection (National Library of New Zealand)  http://timeframes1.natlib.govt.nz/

ArTok: Pacific Arts Online http://www.abc.net.au/arts/artok/default.htm

Art Right Now (Contemporary Australian Art including Aboriginal Art) http://gallery.discoverymedia.com.au/artzinePub/index.asp

ArtsHub (Australian arts jobs, careers, news) http://www.artshub.com.au/au/default.asp

Arts Tasmania http://www.arts.tas.gov.au/

Australia Council for the Arts http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/

Australian Aboriginal art http://www.aboriginalart.com.au/     http://www.dreamtime.net.au/

Australian Aboriginal art online  http://www.aboriginalartonline.com/

Australian Cultural Network  http://www.acn.net.au

Australian Indigenous Art Commercial Code of Conduct http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/the_arts/aboriginal_-and-_torres_strait_islander/code_of_conduct

Australian National Library Online Exhibitions  http://www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/online.html

Australian Petroglyphs  http://www.aboriginalartonline.com/art/rock3.html  AND  http://www.crystalinks.com/auspetroglyphs.html

Australian Pictorial Archive (Pictures from many Pacific countries) http://www.pictureaustralia.org/

Australian Universities Melanesian artefacts online http://www.aumol.usyd.edu.au

Beattie Photographs (JW Beattie, Catalogue of a Series of Photographs illustrating The Scenery and Peoples of the Islands in the South and Western Pacific (ca. 1907)) http://anglicanhistory.org/oceania/beattie_catalogue1907.html

Brian Brake: Lens on the world (site devoted to the work of renowned NZ photographer — wonderful images) http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/WhatsOn/exhibitions/BrianBrake/Pages/default.aspx

Macleay Museum News (Sydney University) http://www.usyd.edu.au/su/macleay/bnewslet.htm#newletissues

Maori Material Culture http://www.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/nzp/matcult.htm

Marshallese Handicrafts (Dr Dirk Spenneman's page)  http://marshall.csu.edu.au/html/Handicraft/Handicraft.html

National Archives of Australia Photo Collection  http://www.naa.gov.au/the_collection/photosearch.html

National Library of Australia Pictures Catalogue   http://www.nla.gov.au/catalogue/pictures/

National Library of Australia online exhibition on Cook and Omai   http://www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/omai/

National Library of Australia online exhibition on the Rex Nan Kivell collection  http://www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/nk/ 

Noel Butlin Archives Centre (ANU) (has archives of many company records and photos, including Burns Philp and CSR Co.) http://www.archives.anu.edu.au/nbac/html/listholdings.html

Oceanic Art Society http://www.oceanicartsociety.org.au/

OzArts (Australia Council for the Arts page) http://www.ozarts.com.au/

Picture Australia (Combined site of many major picture collections in Australia, including thousands of Pacific images)   http://www.pictureaustralia.org/

Rex Nan Kivell Collection (Online exhibition) http://www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/nk/

Tapa (especially Tongan ngatu) http://www.futurepacific.co.nz/tapa/tapa_making.html

Ta Moko (Maori tattoo site) http://www.tamoko.org.nz/

Upper Sepik — Central New Guinea Project http://uscngp.sai.net.au/

OTHER LOCATIONS

American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/

Annual Review of Anthropology http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/anthro?cookieSet=1

Art:21 Blog (Contemporary art and discussion) http://blog.art21.org/

Art History of the Pacific (Pacific section of a remarkable resource maintained by Dr Chris Witcombe, with links on art histories world-wide) http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHpacific.html

Art of Pacific Cultures (Site by Dr Chris Witcombe) http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHpacific.html

Art-Pacific (commercial site, but some informative sections and many useful links) http://www.art-pacific.com/index.htm

Art of Kula http://www.netspeed.com.au/cr/theartofkula/default.htm

Art of the Solomons and Vanuatu (Suzanne Bastien's private collection) http://www.suzannebastien.com/

Art of West New Britain (PNG) http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/ANTHRO/WNB/WestNewBritain.html

Assemblage (online magazine) http://www.shef.ac.uk/~assem/3

British Museum Explore World Cultures (Including Melanesia & Polynesia) http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/world_cultures.aspx

Cambridge Museum of Archaeology& Anthropology Photographic Collections  http://museum-server.archanth.cam.ac.uk/Collections/Photo%20web/start.html

Cambridge Museum of Archaeology& Anthropology Textile Collections from Oceania http://museum.archanth.cam.ac.uk/textiles/collection/oceania/

Centre for Cross-Cultural Research (ANU) http://online.anu.edu.au/culture

Chris Boylan Oceanic Art (Dealer site, Sydney) http://www.chrisboylan-oceanicart.com/

Colonial World Fairs (KIT resource, Netherlands) (includes wonderful New Guinea photographic archive online) http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/gvn/search/search_form.xsp?dbcode=KIT01&locale=en&pageid=B3048C4A-DD09-4B51-8B82-48AB2613ED94&clearfields=true

Cook and Omai (Online exhibition) http://www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/omai/

De Rienzi engravings of Polynesia  http://www.mapsouthpacific.com/engravings/index.html

DesART (Association of Central Australian Indigenous Art Centres)  http://www.desart.com.au/

Envisioning the Pacific Islands: Indigenous, Colonial and Contemporary Arts (Margaret Jolly: course outline and description) http://www.hawaii.edu/cpis/psi/art/Envisioning%20pacific%20islands.htm

Galerie Meyer (dealers, Paris) http://www.galerie-meyer-oceanic-art.com

Gallery Systems software (Museum, school and private collection management software) http://www.gallerysystems.com/

George Ortiz Collection http://www.georgeortiz.com/PACIFIC/index.html

Hawaiian Bark Cloth http://www.kupuna.com/kapa.htm

Hawai'ian Petroglyphs  http://www.kapaams.k12.hi.us/netshare/cmorris/assignmthawaiianart.htm

Holger Braun Fine Asian & Tribal (dealers) http://www.holgerbraun.com/

Hurst Gallery (dealers) http://world.std.com/~hurst/

International String Figure Association  http://www.isfa.org/isfa.htm

Journal of Material Culture http://mcu.sagepub.com/archive/

Kapa: Hawaiian Bark Cloth  http://www.kupuna.com/kapa.htm

Kew Gardens (U.K.) Barkcloth page http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/collections/ecbot/BarkCloth.htm

Kiribati pre-Western weapons and wars http://www.janeresture.com/kiriwars/index.htm

Maisin Bark-Cloth exhibition http://www.uampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibits/jumpline/jlhome.html

Marquesan tattoo (German language site, information derived from Karl von den Steinen in 1896) http://www.mare.de/mare/schatztruhe/index.php

Marshallese crafts   http://www.yokwe.net/ydownloads/Handicraftbooklet.pdf

Marshallese Fine Weaving (clothing fine mats: "Virtual Museum" from USP Marshall Is.) http://www.clothingmatsofthemarshalls.com/

Meyer Oceanic Art http://www.meyeroceanicart.com/

Marshallese Stick Charts for navigation   http://www.rmiembassyus.org/about/traditional.html#navigation

Meyer oceanic Art Moving Images of the Pacific Islands (on-line database on Pacific films and videos)  http://www2.hawaii.edu/oceanic/film/

New York Public Library Digital Gallery online http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm

Oceania Ethnographica (commercial site with many photos, books etc online) http://www.oceania-ethnographica.com/

Oceanic (Prof. Ron Johnson site with old photos, engravings, and maps) http://sorrel.humboldt.edu/~rwj1/oceanic.html

L'Océanie: Peuples des eaux, gens des îles. (French language site, nice visuals especially in Ancêtres section) http://www.oceanie.org/accueil.html

Pacific Arts Association http://www.pacificarts.org

Pacific Arts Online http://www.abc.net.au/arts/artok/default.htm

Pacific Islands Music and Dance: a Cyberguide http://www-personal.umich.edu/~akstill/CyberGuides/Pacific_CyberGuide/index.html

Paul Jacoulet hanga woodcuts of Asia and Micronesia http://www.hanga.com/gallery.cfm?ID=28   ALSO article http://www.artelino.com/articles/paul_jacoulet.asp

Petroglyphs of Rapanui (text in Spanish, nice illustrations from 6 sites) http://www.geocities.com/petroglifos_rapanui/index.htm

PNG Art   http://www.newguineaart.com/gallery/gallery.html

PNG Tourist Art & Sculpture Garden at Stanford (PowerPoint Presentations) http://www.eksilverman.com/

Polynesian Tattoo bibliography http://www.hawaii.gov/hidocs/tattooing.html

Samoan barkcloth http://www.siapo.com

Samoan Tattoo http://samoantattoo.tattooing-piercings.com/

Society for Visual Anthropology http://societyforvisualanthropology.org/

"Squatting figure in Micronesian Art" article by Barbara Wavell  http://cas.gmu.edu/~tobi/tobithings/monkeymen.htm

Suzanne Bastien's private collection (Solomons & Vanuatu) http://www.suzannebastien.com/

"Symmetry" article online  http://members.tripod.com/vismath6/crowe1/

Tahiti tatoo ("Polynesian tattoo world-wide guide") http://www.tahititatou.com/

Tattoo Traditions (commercial site but newsletter has useful info & many excellent weblinks) http://www.tattootraditions.alohaworld.com/tattootraditions/index.htm

The Art of Kula (Trobriand images)  http://www.netspeed.com.au/cr/theartofkula/default.htm

Tjibaou Cultural Centre, Nouméa http://www.adck.nc

Tobi Island (Micronesia) Traditional Culture (including material culture) http://www.friendsoftobi.org/tobitraditionalculture.htm ALSO The Fishing Lore of Tobi Island by Peter Black (includes details of canoe construction) http://www.friendsoftobi.org/tobithings/fishing/fishinglore/fishingloreoftobiisland.htm

Tribal Arts Directory http://www.tribalartsdirectory.com/

Tyne & Wear Museums' collections online  http://www.imagine.org.uk/index.php

University of Hawaii at Manoa's Pacific-related photo collections: http://libweb.hawaii.edu/libdept/pacific AND http://digicoll.manoa.hawaii.edu/

Visual Anthropology Forum links http://cc.joensuu.fi/sights/bm.htm

Visual Anthropology Review http://people.virginia.edu/~ds8s/VAR/ OR http://societyforvisualanthropology.org/?page_id=23

Visual Resources Association  (collection management etc.) http://www.vraweb.org/


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