ID's of Pacific Art Pieces Flashcards
Nan Madol
Culture/Creator: Saudeleur Dynasty
Place Made: Pohnpei, Micronesia
Medium: Basalt boulders, prismatic columns
Time: c. 700-1600 C.E.
Moai on platform (ahu)
Culture/Creator: Rapa Nui
Place Made: Easter Island
Medium: Volcanic tuff figures, basalt base
Time: c. 1100- 1600 C.E.
‘Ahu ‘ula (feather cape)
Culture/Creator: Hawaiian
Place Made: Hawaiian
Medium: feathers and fiber
Time: Late 18th century C.E.
Female Deity
Culture/Creator: Nukuoro
Place Made: Micronesia
Medium: wood
Time: c. 18th to 19th-century C.E.
Buk (mask)
Culture/Creator: Buk
Place Made: Torres Strait
Medium: Turtle shell, wood, fiber, feathers, and shell
Time: Mid- to late 19th century C.E.
Hiapo (tapa)
Culture/Creator: Niue
Place Made: Polynesian
Medium: Tapa or bark cloth, freehand painting
Time: c. 1850-1900 C.E.
Tamati Waka Nene
Culture/Creator: Māori Gottfried Lindauer
Place Made: New Zealand
Medium: Oil on canvas
Time: 1890 C.E.
Navigation Chart
Culture/Creator: Marshall Islanders
Place Made: Marshall Islands, Micronesia
Medium: Wood and Fiber
Time: 19th to early 20th century C.E.
Malagan display and mask Tatanua
Culture/Creator: New Ireland
Place Made: New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea
Medium: Wood, pigment, fiber, and shell
Time: c. 20th century C.E.
Presentation of Fijian mats and tapa cloths to Queen Elizabeth II
Culture/Creator: Fiji
Place Made: Fiji, Polynesia
Medium: Multimedia performance, photos (costumes; cosmetics, scent)
Time: 1953 C.E.
Earth’s Creation
Culture/Creator: Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Place Made: Australia
Medium: Mixed Media
Time: 1994 C.E.
Pisupo Lua Afe - Corned beef 2000
Culture/Creator: Michel Tuffery
Place Made: New Zealand
Medium: Mixed Media
Time: 1994 C.E.
Staff god, Atua rakau
Culture/Creator: Rarotonga
Place Made: Cook Islands, central Polynesia
Medium: wood, tapa, fiber, and feathers
Time: Late 19th to early 19th century C.E.
