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Masks, sculpture, body art, puppets, wood carving, furniture, fiber art and textiles: Melanesian tribal art (New Guinea artifacts, Solomon Islands artefacts) and folk art from Indonesia and China

Art-Pacific: Artifact of the month

We are not posting new articles at the moment - explore the many pages on New Guinea art, Indonesian folk art and Bai textiles already on the site.

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Art Dealer in the Last Unknown
Ron Perry and New Guinea Art
the early years: 1964 - 1973

by Carolyn Leigh and Ron Perry

320 pages of adventure, over 450 early photographs

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New Guinea Tribal Art eGuide

by Carolyn Leigh with Ron Perry and Doug Mehaffey

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Browse these short summaries
OR from the TOCs link directly to the original articles.

• 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
• Indonesian art TOC | Dyak baby carriers and masks | furniture | Java folk art | Lombok baskets | Lombok lontar boxes | masks from Bali and Java | puppets
  
  Artifacts from Papua (formerly Irian Jaya) are included in these articles:
  
  Asmat art | canoes and prows | phallocrypts | shields | weapons
• China-Bai textiles TOC | baby carriers | baby hats | woodblock prints
• Building a Collection.

Collecting New Guinea art in the field since 1964.

Photographs, text and maps copyright © Carolyn Leigh, 1996-2011. All rights reserved.
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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/