BM: Arts of the Pacific Islands

Sharing artworks from Brooklyn Museum's Arts of the Pacific Islands department. Not associated with the Brooklyn Museum.

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Circular Piece of Shell, Brooklyn Museum: Arts of the Pacific Islands

Medium: Irridescent white shell

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/55409

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Doll, Brooklyn Museum: Arts of the Pacific Islands

Medium: Wood, gilt, pigment

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/37293

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Coffin Fragment with Image of Anubis, ca. 1539-1075 B.C.E., or later, Brooklyn Museum: Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

Size: 8 7/16 x 5 11/16 x 9/16 in. (21.5 x 14.4 x 1.4 cm) mount (support/display board): 9 ¼ x 6 7/8 in. (23.5 x 17.5 cm) Medium: Wood, gesso, pigment

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/217346

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Throwing Stick, 19th century, Brooklyn Museum: Arts of the Pacific Islands

Size: 1/2 x 6 x 26 1/2in. (1.3 x 15.2 x 67.3cm) Medium: Wood

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/45798

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Straight Staff, Brooklyn Museum: Arts of the Pacific Islands

Medium: Wood, mother of pearl

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/101293

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Throwing Stick, 19th century, Brooklyn Museum: Arts of the Pacific Islands

Size: 30 1/2 x 5 3/4 x 1/2 in. (77.5 x 14.6 x 1.3 cm) Medium: Wood

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/45703

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Club, Brooklyn Museum: Arts of the Pacific Islands

Size: 26 x 6 3/4 x 6 3/4 in. (66 x 17.1 x 17.1 cm) Medium: Wood

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/115516

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Mola, Kuna, 1960, Art Institute of Chicago: Arts of the Americas

Gift of F. Louis Hoover Size: 41.8 x 54.5 cm (16 ½ x 21 ½ in.)

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/34037/

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Graffiti on a Storehouse Wall, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1847, Brooklyn Museum: Asian Art

Central page from the triptych known as “Scribblings on the Storehouse Wall” (Nitakaragura kabe no mudagaki). Vertical oban-sized print depicting a wall covered with graffiti, mostly consisting of thinly disguised portraits of well-known actors in celebrated roles. At the center is the figure of a dancing cat. This is the central page of a triptych, one of several groups (2 triptychs and 1 diptych, plus an homage by Kunichika that references the work of Kuniyoshi) of graffiti images that the artist made following new censorship laws that forbade the representation of actors. The Japanese title, Nitakaragura, is a pun, as it sounds like the phrase “nita kara,” meaning “don’t they resemble them?” The “dancing cat” triptych, as this group is known, differs from the other triptych in its inclusion of the lower section of the wall, with its less artistic scribblings. The actors have been identified, running clockwise from the top center: - Ichimura Uzaemon XII in the role of Tsukimoto Inaba Kosuke, in the play Onoe Baiju Ichidai Banasi - Matsumoto Koshiro VI in the role of Yokogawa Kakuha in Yoshitsune senbon sakura - Nakamura Utaemon IV in the role of Sato Tadanobu Kakuha in Yoshitsune senbon sakura - Bando Shuka - Sawamura Ujuro Jagatara Sanzo in the play Sawamura ski hakata no hanabishi - Ichikawa Shinsha Th publisher for this series is Iba-ya Sensaburo. Size: approx.: 10 × 15 in. (25.4 × 38.1 cm) Medium: Color woodblock print on paper

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/223083

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Mortar, Brooklyn Museum: Arts of the Pacific Islands

Size: 9 1/8 x 4 x 3 1/2 in. (23.2 x 10.2 x 8.9 cm) Medium: Wood

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/116684

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Shield, Brooklyn Museum: Arts of the Pacific Islands

Size: 36 in. (91.4 cm) long Medium: Wood, bejugo fiber lashings

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/139696

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Stone, Brooklyn Museum: Arts of the Pacific Islands

Medium: Stone

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/44896

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Carved Head on Base, 20th century, Brooklyn Museum: Arts of the Pacific Islands

Size: 14 15/16 x 5 7/8 in. (38 x 15 cm) Medium: Wood, pigment

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/76817

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Flute, Brooklyn Museum: Arts of the Pacific Islands

Size: 19 11/16 x 1 3/16in. (50 x 3cm) Medium: Bamboo

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/15403

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Pair of Ear Ornaments (Pu Taiata), before 1938, Brooklyn Museum: Arts of the Pacific Islands

Pair of ear plugs of human bone showing tiki figures, each having three in a row Size: a: 1 9/16 × 13/16 × 3/16 in. (4 × 2.1 × 0.5 cm) b: 1 9/16 × 13/16 × 3/16 in. (4 × 2.1 × 0.5 cm) Medium: Bone

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/53981

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Pair of Stilt Steps (Tapuvae), before 1848, Brooklyn Museum: Arts of the Pacific Islands

Size: a: 14 3/16 × 3 15/16 in. (36 × 10 cm) b: 13 9/16 × 4 1/8 in. (34.5 × 10.5 cm) Medium: Carved wood

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/119011

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Ornament, before 1938, Brooklyn Museum: Arts of the Pacific Islands

Ornament of ridged, brownish hollow bone Size: 13/16 x 1 1/16 in. (2 x 2.7 cm) Medium: Bone

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/53899