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Journal of Pacific History

Journal of Pacific History,  vol. 41, no. 2 (September 2006)
Photography and History in the Pacific Islands
guest editor : Max Quanchi

Visual histories and photographic evidence
Max Quanchi
pp. 165-173

Photography and Christian mission : George Brown's images of the New Britain mission 1875-1889
Helen Gardner & Jude Philp
pp. 175-190

Losing the forest but not the stories in the trees : contemporary understandings of F.E. Williams's 1922 photographs of the Purari Delta
Joshua Bell
pp. 191-206

The imaging of Samoa in illustrated magazines and serial encyclopaedias in the early-20th century
Max Quanchi
pp. 207-217

Providing access to Maori and Pacific photographs
Diane Woods
pp. 219-225

The Tiby Hagen Collection at the Archives of New Caledonia
Isabelle Amiot
pp. 227-232

The New Guinea Collection photographic databases, University of Papua New Guinea
Sam Kaima
pp. 233-235

The Internet Mission photography archive
Paul F. Stuehrenberg
pp. 237-238

Preservation and access to South Seas photographs
Ewan Maidment
pp. 239-247

Online access to this issue available via WATSONLINE (Restricted to Metropolitan Museum of Art networked locations)

RGL call no. : A J868

Pictured above : Portrait of men in ceremonial dress, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, ca.1890 - (collection) Council for World Mission/London Missionary Society - (owner) Council for World Mission. From the Internet Mission Photography Archive [see earlier post about the archive].

 

Gender in Oceania art

Posted by Joshua Bell (UEA)

A Pacific Islander exhibition, TURNING TIDES: Gender in Oceania Art, opened in San Diego in conjunction with a session held at the annual Association of Social Anthropologists in Oceania (ASAO) meetings. The exhibition ran at the University of California San Diego Graduate Gallery and Performance Space, Feb. 7-16, 2006.

< Reggie Meredith. Self Portrait. n.d. Mixed media.

Those not able to go to the exhibit can visit the following website:

http://classroom.sdmesa.edu/jcastro/turning_tides_exhibit.htm

This exhibition was curated by Samoan artist and studio art professor Jewel Castro, with Dr. Pamela Rosi and Samoan artist Dan Taulapapa McMullin.

As Jewel Castro has noted, "TURNING TIDES is the first exhibition of its kind on the United States mainland. It is curated by Pacific Islanders (we have adopted Pamela) for Pacific Islanders. It will highlight artists who are expressing a contemporary identity that links indigenous Pacific gender roles, with the history of traditional art forms, the influence of personal location and experience, in a desire for authentic representation. Artists based in Papua New Guinea, Samoa, New Zealand, Hawaii, the United States, and England, will be featured. Movement of the exhibition to other venues after UCSD is being planned."

The art exhibition featured paintings, photographs, sculpture, tapa and video by artists: Dr. Richard S. Cooper, Tupito Gadalla, Keala Kelly, Shigeyuki Kihara, Fonofale McCarthy, Dan Taulapapa McMullin, Regina Antoinette Meredith, Julie Mota, Rosanna Raymond, Larry Santana, Filipe Tohi, Daniel Waswas, Jane Wena; Jewel Castro; and the Otufelenite Tongan Community group's Ngatu project organized by Dr. Ping-Ann Ado.