Post #408959 by bigbrotiki on Sat, Sep 20, 2008 3:27 AM

Thanks for that article, Elicia, that is alarming! I was just reading an article about John Friede donating his collection, in the Summer 2004 issue of "Art Tribal". Check out these pics from his home:

No wonder the wealth of Oceanic art at the De Young came as such a surprise to all of us: It was placed there so recently! It would be a bummer if it would not last there...

On a related issue, the same issue of "Tribal Art" had this great PNG "Phantom" shield in it:

whose story I always loved, and so I found other examples here:
http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/reviews/karlins/karlins6-28-07.asp

...and which led me to a very interesting sounding book and DVD:

http://www.ru.nl/cps/30/nb30e.html

"In this documentary, the famously-elusive scholar comments on his wide-ranging fieldwork in the Canadian Arctic and Papua New Guinea, concepts of authenticity and truth in media and art, the relationship between anthropology and surrealism, and the impossibility of preserving culture."

"...the impossibility of preserving culture"! Yeah...