Adorning the World: Art of the Marquesas Islands - General Tiki

BM Blue Moose Member Maine and New York Joined: Apr 02, 2004 Posts: 28	BM Blue Moose Posted posted on Mon, Feb 21, 2005 1:38 PM The show, Adorning the World: Art of the Marquesas Islands, will run at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from May 10 through Jan 15, 2006. This should be much more tiki-themed than last year's Easter Island show. It will be in the Michael Rockefeller wing, in the special exhibitions gallery on the first floor. Note that the Rockefeller Pacific collections are currently in storage until construction of new gallery space is finished in 2007. I work at the Met as a guard, and it was interesting to go through the storage area, as there's lots of stuff there that has never been on public display. Lots of spears and arrows, for example, but the most interesting objects to me were a shelf of human skulls Michael Rockefeller traded for in New Guinea. Some skulls are plain, but many have been decorated with shells and other materials. Intertesting, because soon after collecting these skulls, Rocky lost his own skull to an Asmat 'collector'! Anyway, It'll be good to see some Pacific art on display at the Met come May. Blue Moose [ Edited by: Blue Moose on 2005-02-21 13:46 ]

The show, Adorning the World: Art of the Marquesas Islands, will run at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from May 10 through Jan 15, 2006. This should be much more tiki-themed than last year's Easter Island show. It will be in the Michael Rockefeller wing, in the special exhibitions gallery on the first floor.

Note that the Rockefeller Pacific collections are currently in storage until construction of new gallery space is finished in 2007. I work at the Met as a guard, and it was interesting to go through the storage area, as there's lots of stuff there that has never been on public display. Lots of spears and arrows, for example, but the most interesting objects to me were a shelf of human skulls Michael Rockefeller traded for in New Guinea. Some skulls are plain, but many have been decorated with shells and other materials. Intertesting, because soon after collecting these skulls, Rocky lost his own skull to an Asmat 'collector'!

Anyway, It'll be good to see some Pacific art on display at the Met come May.

Blue Moose

[ Edited by: Blue Moose on 2005-02-21 13:46 ]

Post #142381 by Blue Moose on Mon, Feb 21, 2005 1:38 PM