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Explore our Guide to artifacts from New Guinea and other parts of Oceania, plus Indonesia and China

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Artifacts used to illustrate the articles on this site, Art-Pacific.com, are not for sale. Please visit some of the dealers and art galleries we work with for similar pieces.

Figure 1: Bundi butterfly dancers wearing barkcloth dance costumes at the Goroka Show, PNG. More on Bundi dancers.

Explore our Guide to artifacts from Oceania, Indonesia and China
popular topics: New Guinea masks and Indonesian masks toc | Guide to Sepik River Carvings | Body art

Browse OCEANIC ART:

Melanesian art TOC | Map of art areas of Melanesia
Papua New Guinea: Highlands: body art - Bundi tapa - jewelry/dancers | Karawari and Blackwater Rivers: masks - carvings - map | Massim: artifacts- Trobriand Kula - map | Kula canoe | New Britain: Baining - Sulka - Tolai dukduk | New Ireland: Malagan | Ramu River: masks - carvings - map | Sepik River: masks - carvings - villages - map | Papuan Gulf: masks - carvings - map - Gogodala - Kukukuku
other areas: Asmat | Solomon Islands: crafts - jewelry - map
art and craft: barkcloth (tapa) | body art | cane and fiber figures | canoes and prows | jewelry/dancers | masks - Middle Sepik | phallocrypts | pottery - Chambri | shields | story boards | suspension hooks | weapons | yam masks - fiber | yam masks - wood

Browse INDONESIAN ART:

Indonesian art TOC | Dyak baby carriers and masks | furniture | Java folk art | Lombok baskets | Lombok lontar boxes | masks from Bali and Java | puppets

Browse CHINA - BAI TEXTILES:

China-Bai textiles TOC | baby carriers | baby hats | woodblock prints

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Artifacts on this site are collected in the field by my husband, Ron Perry. I take the photographs, do the html, text and maps. More background in Who We Are. Art-Pacific has been on the WWW since 1996. We hope you enjoy our New Guinea tribal art and Indonesian folk art as much as we do. Carolyn Leigh, P.O. Box 85284,Tucson, AZ 85754-5284 USA, Art-Pacific at http://www.art-pacific.com/