Post #360700 by 54 house of bamboo on Tue, Feb 12, 2008 6:37 AM

The Museum's Anthropology section holds large and unparallelled Pacific collections (over 30,000 artefacts), including 18th-century material from Captain James Cook's voyages of exploration. There are particularly fine 19th- and 20th-century collections from Fiji, Vanuatu, New Guinea and the Torres Strait.

Pasifika Styles Exhibition closing event | Cambridge UK
Saturday 23 February 10:30am to 4:30pm
At University of Cambridge's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

http://www.pasifikastyles.org.uk
Pasifika Styles is a major exhibition and festival project launched in Cambridge in May 2006, celebrating Maori and Pacific Island art and culture from New Zealand.

Pacific Craft Market
Stalls selling Clothing, Jewellery and Pacific Crafts
Be entertained by music from a Ukelele Band with a chance to see Maori Weaving Demonstrations, as well as a display of Maori Weaponry and Artist Talks

Visiting groups include:

• Oxford Papuan Village
• Beats of Polynesia
• Mawaia Maori Performing Arts
• London Fale
• Kirbati Tuvulu Association
• Kohanga Reo
• Ngati Ranana (London Maori Club)
• Maramara Totara (Maori marital arts)