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Title Tiki : Marquesan art and the Krusenstern expedition
Published Leiden : Sidestone Press, 2019

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Series Pacific presences ; 5
Pacific presences ; 5.
Contents Intro -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Nicholas Thomas -- Part one -- collections -- Making collections: the Krusenstern expedition at Nuku Hiva -- Elena Govor -- From Nuku Hiva to Europe: the collections' histories -- Elena Govor -- Part two -- Contexts -- Te Henua: the Marquesan environment -- Pierre Ottino -- Nuku Hiva in 1825: Artefacts collected during the voyage of the Maria Reigersberg and the Pollux -- Caroline van Santen -- Tiki, mana, history: reflections on Marquesan art and the Krusenstern expedition -- Nicholas Thomas -- Part three -- catalogue
Tiki: a catalogue of artefacts from Nuku Hiva collected or recorded by members of the Krusenstern expedition -- Elena Govor with Nicholas Thomas, Maia Nuku, Julie Adams, Katharina Haslwanter and Ekaterina Balakhonova -- Endnotes -- Select bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Lege pagina -- Lege pagina
Summary Created across the six islands of a remote archipelago in eastern Polynesia, the art of the Marquesas is one of the world's most distinctive and remarkable art traditions. Though exhibited in major museums around the world, Marquesan art is nevertheless poorly understood, and the formation of collections still largely unresearched. This book documents and explores the most extensive early collection from the archipelago. In May, 1804, participants in the first Russian voyage round the world, usually known as the Krusenstern expedition after the principal commander, spent twelve days at the isla
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 10, 2019)
Subject Art -- French Polynesia -- Marquesas Islands
Sculpture, Polynesian -- French Polynesia -- Marquesas Islands
ART -- Folk & Outsider Art.
CRAFTS & HOBBIES -- Folkcrafts.
Art
Civilization
Sculpture, Polynesian
SUBJECT Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) -- Civilization
Subject French Polynesia -- Marquesas Islands
Form Electronic book
Author Govor, Elena.
Thomas, Nicholas, 1960-
ISBN 9789088906923
9088906920
9088906904
9789088906909