[Asmat Art- Pacific Art]

use of mangrove tree

pole's were erected before a men's house

squatting figures

fruit eating animals: symbols of head-hunting

Bisj Poles

[aboriginal-pacific art]

white-line design in complex geometric patterns

spine emphasized

tree bark

kangaroo

[Maori art- pacific art]

building represents body of ancestor

relief sculptures sit totemlike on outside and inside

squat figures sit atop one another

traditional maori meeting house

[easter island-pacific art]

about 900 statues in all, mostly male, almost all facing inland

erected on large platforms

backs tattooed

topknots added to some

prominent foreheads, broad noses, pouting thin lips,etc

moai