Resource Spotlight | “Adorning the World: Art of the Marquesas Islands” by Eric Kjellgren with Carol S. Ivory

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Canoe Prow Ornament
© Musée d'ethnographie de Genève

Adorning The World
Art of the Marquesas Islands

by Eric Kjellgren with Carol S. Ivory

This resource is generously provided by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Man’s Head Ornament
© Pitts Rivers Museum

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Lidded Bowl in Avian Form
© Mvsei Vaticani Ethnological Museum

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Canoe Prow Ornament
© Musée Dapper

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Painted Tapa Barkcloth Deity
© Musée de l'Homme

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Tiki Figure
© Musée Dapper

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Stilt Step
© Dallas Museum of Art

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Ceremonial Bowl
© Musée du quai Branly — Jacques Chirac

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‘U’u War Club
© The British Museum

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Tiki Figure
© Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Tattoo Model
© Peabody Essex Museum

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Jar Lid
© Penn Museum

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Stilt Step
© The Indiana University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

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Ear Ornaments
© Penn Museum

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Tattoo Model
© Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum

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Engraving of Stilt Step | 18th Century
© The British Museum

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Portrait of a Club Wielding Warrior from the Marquesas Islands
© Weltmuseum Wien

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Author | Eric Kjellgren, Carol S. Ivory
Publisher | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Date of Publication | 2005

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