Post #417222 by tikibars on Tue, Nov 4, 2008 10:56 AM

I visited the De Young last month when I was in the Bay Area for the Tiki crawl.

This is truly one of the finest collections of PNG art that I have seen.

There are a small handful of Maori and Rapa Nui artifacts, but the PNG collection is massive.

The Covarrubias mural is impressive as well.

Most of my pics are redundant to what has been posted above, but here are a few anyway -

They also have these two large-format prints, which are from the same series that produced a set that hangs in the Bishop Museum in Honolulu:

They were produced in tall vertical strips, and meant to be assembled as a large interior mural. Not many complete sets survive; the set in the De Young is in better shape than the Bishop's set.

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[ Edited by: tikibars 2008-11-04 13:32 ]