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Feather Evidence Helps Clarify Locality Of Anthropological Artifacts In The Museum Of Mankind, Carla J. Dove Sep 1998

Feather Evidence Helps Clarify Locality Of Anthropological Artifacts In The Museum Of Mankind, Carla J. Dove

Pacific Studies

Species of birds used on ethnographic artifacts collected during the eighteenth century and stored at the Museum of Mankind (British Museum) were identified by using microscopic and whole-feather characters. One of the objects (VAN 345), labeled as having been collected on Vancouver’s voyage to Tahiti, was a feather pendant made of long strands of chicken feathers with small red feathers at the base. The small red feathers were examined microscopically, compared with museum study skins of all possible species, and identified as Vestiaria coccinea (‘I‘iwi). Since this species is known only from the Hawaiian Archipelago, it was determined that the …


Vol. 20 No. 4 (1997): Pacific Studies Front Matter, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Dec 1997

Vol. 20 No. 4 (1997): Pacific Studies Front Matter, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Pacific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US$40.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, and …


Contributors: Vol 20 No. 4, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Dec 1997

Contributors: Vol 20 No. 4, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Contributors list of Vol. 20 (1997): Pacific Studies Full Issue 4


Introduction: Imaging, Representation, And Photography Of The Pacific Islands, Max Quanchi Dec 1997

Introduction: Imaging, Representation, And Photography Of The Pacific Islands, Max Quanchi

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Making Histories: The Torres Strait Expedition Of 1898, Elizabeth Edwards Dec 1997

Making Histories: The Torres Strait Expedition Of 1898, Elizabeth Edwards

Pacific Studies

The Cambridge Torres Strait Expedition used photography to address two agendas, both of which were grounded in the temporal ambiguities of photography. Photography was used first as an integrated tool of anthropological investigation, particularly in the field of salvage ethnography and through “reenactment”; and second as a site of social interaction between the expedition and the Torres Strait Islanders through the exchange and display of photographs. I argue that these two agendas and their function as “history” are grounded in the temporal ambiguities inherent in photographic inscription. The first, the scientific, depended on the construction and representation of a “static” …


In Search Of “Men Of Nature”: Paul Wirz’S Photography In New Guinea, 1916–1955, Andrea E. Schmidt Dec 1997

In Search Of “Men Of Nature”: Paul Wirz’S Photography In New Guinea, 1916–1955, Andrea E. Schmidt

Pacific Studies

Between 1916 and 1955 the Swiss anthropologist and collector Paul Wirz (1892– 1955) took several thousand photographs during his research trips to New Guinea, where he stayed with the Marind-anim of the south coast, at Lake Sentani, in the highlands with the Western Dani and the Enga, at the Papuan Gulf (Gogodala), and in the Sepik and Maprik areas. For his black-and-white–dominated photography Wirz used first gelatin dry-plate technology, later roll film. The photographs served as illustrations for his numerous publications, and, sometimes hand-colored, as lantern slides for his lectures. In content, Wirz believed that photography should above all document …


Official/Unofficial Images: Photographs From The Crane Pacific Expedition, 1928–1929, Virginia-Lee Webb Dec 1997

Official/Unofficial Images: Photographs From The Crane Pacific Expedition, 1928–1929, Virginia-Lee Webb

Pacific Studies

The Crane Pacific Expedition was privately funded by Cornelius Crane and institutionally sponsored by the Field Museum, Chicago. Originally planning a pleasure trip, Crane offered to fund and organize a scientific one for the museum. The expedition circled the globe from November 1928 to October 1929, and collected over 18,000 specimens of all types for various departments at the Field Museum. Sculptures were also collected and given to several museums. However, the Crane Expedition is particularly significant for its photographic record of the Sepik River, New Guinea. One official photographer, Sidney N. Shurcliff, was documented, yet five men are now …


Vol. 20 No. 4 (1997): Pacific Studies Full Issue, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Dec 1997

Vol. 20 No. 4 (1997): Pacific Studies Full Issue, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Pacific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US$40.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, and …


Pacific Islands Collections At The California Museum Of Photography, University Of California–Riverside, Felicia R. Beardsley Dec 1997

Pacific Islands Collections At The California Museum Of Photography, University Of California–Riverside, Felicia R. Beardsley

Pacific Studies

More than twenty thousand photographs in the collections at the California Museum of Photography, University of California–Riverside (UCR CMP), document a century of history in the Pacific region. Most were taken between 1870 and 1930, many by a corps of unnamed photographers dispatched by stereographic companies to collect images for commercial purposes. There were also individuals like Harry Pidgeon, who crossed the Pacific documenting all aspects of life in the region. The Pacific images in two of the principal stereographic collections at UCR CMP, the Keystone-Mast Collection and the Harry Pidgeon Collection, are described. These collections have not been cataloged, …


Collaborative Regional Anthropology In New Guinea: From The New Guinea Micro-Evolution Project To The A. B. Lewis Project And Beyond, Robert L. Welsch Sep 1996

Collaborative Regional Anthropology In New Guinea: From The New Guinea Micro-Evolution Project To The A. B. Lewis Project And Beyond, Robert L. Welsch

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Sandra Bamford's Review Of Dirk Smidt, Pieter Ter Keurs, And Albert Trouwborst's Pacific Material Culture: Essays In Honour Of Dr. Simon Kooijman On The Occasion Of His 80th Birthday, Sandra Bamford Jun 1996

Sandra Bamford's Review Of Dirk Smidt, Pieter Ter Keurs, And Albert Trouwborst's Pacific Material Culture: Essays In Honour Of Dr. Simon Kooijman On The Occasion Of His 80th Birthday, Sandra Bamford

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Alan Howard's Review Of F. Allan Hanson And Louise Hanson's Art And Identity In Oceania, Alan Howard Mar 1996

Alan Howard's Review Of F. Allan Hanson And Louise Hanson's Art And Identity In Oceania, Alan Howard

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Louise Lincoln's Review Of Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin's Leben In Linie, Muster Und Farbe: Einführung In Die Betrachtung Aussereuropäischer Kunst (Life In Line, Pattern, And Color: An Introduction To The Study Of Non-European Art), Louise Lincoln Jun 1993

Louise Lincoln's Review Of Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin's Leben In Linie, Muster Und Farbe: Einführung In Die Betrachtung Aussereuropäischer Kunst (Life In Line, Pattern, And Color: An Introduction To The Study Of Non-European Art), Louise Lincoln

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Louise Lincoln's Review Of Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin's Leben In Linie, Muster Und Farbe: Einführung In Die Betrachtung Aussereuropäischer Kunst (Life In Line, Pattern, And Color: An Introduction To The Study Of Non-European Art), Louise Lincoln Jun 1993

Louise Lincoln's Review Of Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin's Leben In Linie, Muster Und Farbe: Einführung In Die Betrachtung Aussereuropäischer Kunst (Life In Line, Pattern, And Color: An Introduction To The Study Of Non-European Art), Louise Lincoln

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Regional Variation And Local Style: A Neglected Dimension In Hawaiian Prehistory, Patrick V. Kirch Mar 1990

Regional Variation And Local Style: A Neglected Dimension In Hawaiian Prehistory, Patrick V. Kirch

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Phillip Lewis's Review Of Louise Lincoln's Assemblage Of Spirits: Idea And Image In New Ireland, Phillip Lewis Mar 1989

Phillip Lewis's Review Of Louise Lincoln's Assemblage Of Spirits: Idea And Image In New Ireland, Phillip Lewis

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Renée Heyum's Review Of Louise Hanson And F. Allan Hanson's The Art Of Oceania: A Bibliography, Renée Heyum Mar 1988

Renée Heyum's Review Of Louise Hanson And F. Allan Hanson's The Art Of Oceania: A Bibliography, Renée Heyum

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Andreas Reischek And The Maori: Villainy Or The Nineteenth-Century Scientific Ethos, Erich Kolig Oct 1986

Andreas Reischek And The Maori: Villainy Or The Nineteenth-Century Scientific Ethos, Erich Kolig

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Marie J. Adams' Review Of Rod Ewins' Fijian Artefacts: Tasmanian Museum And Art Gallery Collection, Marie J. Adams Sep 1983

Marie J. Adams' Review Of Rod Ewins' Fijian Artefacts: Tasmanian Museum And Art Gallery Collection, Marie J. Adams

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


A Guide To The Dispersal Of Zoological Material From Captain Cook’S Voyages, P. J. P. Whitehead Sep 1978

A Guide To The Dispersal Of Zoological Material From Captain Cook’S Voyages, P. J. P. Whitehead

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


The 1780 Russian Inventory Of Cook Artifacts, Robert D. Craig Sep 1978

The 1780 Russian Inventory Of Cook Artifacts, Robert D. Craig

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Noël L. Mcgrevy Review Of Fergus Clunie, Fijian Weapons And Warfare, Noël L. Mcgrevy Sep 1978

Noël L. Mcgrevy Review Of Fergus Clunie, Fijian Weapons And Warfare, Noël L. Mcgrevy

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Deborah B. Waite Review Of H. W. Voyce, Design Work As Shown On Bougainville Arrows And Spears, Deborah B. Waite Sep 1978

Deborah B. Waite Review Of H. W. Voyce, Design Work As Shown On Bougainville Arrows And Spears, Deborah B. Waite

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.