Cultural History In Focus | “The Art of Micronesia: The University of Hawaii Art Gallery” by Jerome Feldman and Donald H. Rubinstein with Introduction by Leonard Mason

 

Deity Figure (Sope) | Nukuoro, Carolina Islands
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss, digitale Reproduktion: Jester Blank GbR

 
 
 

The Art of Micronesia

 

The University of Hawaii Art Gallery

Essays by Jerome Feldman and Donald H. Rubinstein
with Introduction by Leonard Mason

Foreword by Albert J. Simone
Acknowledgements
Introduction by Leonard Mason
Form and Function in the Art of Micronesia by Jerome Feldman
Beyond Form and Function by Jerome Feldman
Fabric Arts and Traditions by Donald H. Rubinstein
Catalogue of the Exhibition
Bibliography

 

This book was generously provided by Jerome Feldman, Donald H. Rubinstein, et al.

 

Statue of a female deity (profile). Images of deities were known as dinonga eidu and were kept in culthouses. Carved wooden images as ritual objects are extremely rare in Micronesia. Country of Origin: Caroline Islands. Culture: Oceanic. Date/Period: 18th -19th C. Place of Origin: Nukuoro island. Material Size: Wood Height 40cm. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive

Gable Figure (Dilukai) | Late 19th – Early 20th Century | Belau
The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller, and Purchase, Nelson A. Rockefeller Gift, 1970 | 1978.412.1558a-d
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York, USA

Statue of a female deity (profile). Images of deities were known as dinonga eidu and were kept in culthouses. Carved wooden images as ritual objects are extremely rare in Micronesia. Country of Origin: Caroline Islands. Culture: Oceanic. Date/Period: 18th -19th C. Place of Origin: Nukuoro island. Material Size: Wood Height 40cm. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive

Carving of goddess. Kawe de Hine Aligi. | Nukuoro, Caroline Islands | 1970.39, 38740
© Auckland War Memorial Museum | New Zealand

Helmet | Mid 19th Century | Kiribati
© The British Museum | United Kingdom

Deity Figure (Sope) | Nukuoro, Caroline Islands
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss, digitale Reproduktion: Jester Blank GbR

Wooden Mask | 19th Century | Caroline Islands | 18240 | Gift of William Pepper, 1891
© Penn Museum | Pennsylvania, USA

Lid and Bowl | 18th Century | Palau
© The British Museum | United Kingdom

Wooden Mask (tapuanu) | Caroline Islands, Nomoi Islands (Mortlock Islands)
Purchased with funds provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation with additional funding by Jane and Terry Semel, the David Bohnett Foundation, Camilla Chandler Frost, Gayle and Edward P. Roski, and The Ahmanson Foundation (M.2008.66.13)
© Los Angeles County Museum of Art | California, USA

Navigation Chart | 19th Century | Marshall Islands
© The British Museum | United Kingdom

Woman's Valuable (Toluk) | Late 19th – Early 20th Century | Belau | The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Burnett, 1960 | 1978.412.756
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York, USA

Table | Late 18th Century - Mid 19th Century | Palau
© The British Museum | United Kingdom

Necklace | 19th Century | Marshall Islands
© The British Museum | United Kingdom

Table | Late 18th Century - Mid 19th Century | Palau
© The British Museum | United Kingdom

 
 

Photographic print | Micronesia | Printed by J Paine Photo | 1880 - 1900 | Yap
© The British Museum | United Kingdom

Photographic print | Micronesia | Printed by J Paine Photo | 1884 | Yap
© The British Museum | United Kingdom

 
 

Jerome Feldman

 

Jerome Feldman is a Professor of art history at Hawaiʻi Pacific University in Honolulu and lectures at the Department of Art and Art History at Mānoa during Summer sessions. His specialization is in the arts of Tribal Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. Feldman has conducted field studies in remote islands of Indonesia, and Polynesia. He has written many articles and books, has studied museum collections in Europe, Asia, the Pacific and America and has aided in several important exhibitions including The Eloquent Dead at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, Nias Tribal Treasures at the Volkenkundig Museum Nusantara in Delft, and Beyond the Java Sea, a Smithsonian sponsored traveling exhibition. In fall 2004 he was the Slade Visiting Professor at Kings College, Cambridge University, England.

Education

PhD | Columbia University
M.A. | University of Hawai’i at Manoa
B.A. | City University of New York

Research Highlights

• “The Great Chief’s House at Baruyulasara, Pulau Tello, the Batu Islands, Indonesia” in Lehner, E., I. Doubrawa, Ikaputra. Insular Diversity Architecture, Culture, Identity in Indonesia, Vienna Institute for Comparative Research in Architecture, 2013: 119-128.
• “Art-Southeast Asia,” in Mcneill et al. Art in World History, Great Barrington: Berkshire Pub.: 130-135.
• With Gruber, P., M. Melcher, J Kurt-Nielsen, “Replacement of Tradition- Comparative View of the Architectural Development of the Village of Hilimondregeraya in Nias, Indonesia,” Cultural Heritage and New Technologies, 14th Congress . eBook edition, Vienna: 2010.

 
 
Nias Tribal Treasures Jerome Feldman
The Eloquent Dead Ancestral Sculpture of Indonesia and Southeast Asia Jerome Feldman
Arc of the Ancestors Indonesian Art from the Jerome L. Joss Collection at UCLA Jerome Feldman
Beyond The Java Sea Art of Indonesia's Outer Islands Jerome Feldman

Colophon

Authors | Jerome Feldman, Donald H. Rubinstein, Leonard Mason, Albert J. Simone
Publication | “The Art of Micronesia: The University of Hawaii Art Gallery”
Publisher | © The University of Hawaii Art Gallery
Year of Publication | 1986

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