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Spring 2004

Art on View:

  • The Inuit Collection of the Ulster Museum in Belfast

Features:

  • Count Rudolf Festetics in the Pacific
  • The Legacy of Plain Indians Shirts

Tribal People:

  • Daniel Hourdé

Winter 2003

Art on View:

  • Masterpieces of African Art in Rio and Turin

Features:

  • Khosi : Statuary of the Yaka and their neighbours
  • The mysterious world of Paul Rabut
  • Slingshots of Guatemala

Autumn 2003

Art on View:

  • Oceanic Art at the Peabody Museum

Features:

  • The art of shrunken heads or Tsantsas
  • New Techniques for old colours : Navajo textiles
  • Collecting : the Stanoff collection

Summer 2003

Art on View:

  • Art of the Korewori

Features:

  • 1823 : Beltrami explores the Mississippi
  • Pende Ivory Ikhoko Masterpieces
  • Art of the Torres Strait in the Australian Museum Collections, Sydney

Spring 2003

Art on View:

  • The Oceanic Art Galleries at the Saint Louis Art Museum
  • Ancient Peruvian Feather Art

Features:

  • Enduring Art of the Ainu
  • Tupele : Chokwe Basket Divination
  • Ubangi Figures

Winter 2002

Features:

  • A Rare Hawaiian Ivory Pendant
  • Ritual Fabric of the Iban Dayak
  • Uncommon Legacies: The Native American Collection of the Peabody Essex Museum

Tribal People:

  • Vittorio Carini

Summer/Autumn 2002

Features:

  • From Sacred to Souvenir: the squatting figure as a motif in Micronesian art
  • Arts of Bahr-El-Ghazal (Part 2): Funerary sculpture of the Avokaya, Morokodu, Nyamusa, Beli, Lori, and Azande
  • Manipa's World: 
    Enggano: Origins, culture, and art (Part 2)

Winter/Spring 2001/2002

Features:

  • Moai Miro: Wood sculpture of Rapa Nui
  • Orilonise: Hermeneutics of the head and hairstyles among the Yoruba
  • Elio Modigliani: An Italian visitor to Enggano, "The Island of Women"
  • The National Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology in Florence

Summer/Autumn 2001

Features:

  • Jivya Soma Mashe, the Premier Artist of The Warli
  • Magical Encounters
  • The Last Totem Poles of the Haida
  • The Buli Master: A Review of the Case
  • Chontal: Ancient Stone Sculpture from Guerrero, Mexico

Spring 2001

Features:

  • Objects of Power: Shamanic Art of the Northwest Coast
  • Art of the Kwele of Equatorial Africa

Recognition:

  • A Trobriand Va'yaulo in Westphalia

Autumn/Winter 2000

Art on View:

  • In the Presence of Spirits: African Art from The National Museum of Ethnology in Lisbon
  • Fineline Painting of The Moche

Features:

  • A Lost Art Form:
    Feathered Capes from The Great Lakes Region
  • The Monkey as a Toggle: Discovering The Unknown World of Chinese Primitive Art

Restoration:

  • The use of surrogate materials in the restoration of pacifc Northwest Coast Art

Summer 2000

Art on View:

  • At the Louvre

Feature:

  • Arrows of Melanesia: A neglected art form

Real or Fake?:

  • Age-dating Metal: A Snare?

Winter 1999/Spring 2000

Art on View:

  • Jewelry of Oceania 

Features:

  • Arts of Bahr-el-Ghazel: Funerary Sculpture of the Bongo and Belanda

  • Art and Shamanism in the Himalayas 


Summer/Autumn 1999  

Art on View:  

  • Guardians of the Longhouse: Art of the Kenyah-Kayan at the Met
  • Spirit Country: Austalian Aboriginal Art in San Francisco 
Features:
  • Bamanas and Bamanaya
  • Northwest Coast Art in the Collection of the Museo De Americas, Madrid

Spring, 1999 

Art on View: 

  • Art of the Palaeo-Eskimo 

Features: 

  • On the Trail of the Serpent: Djenne Terracottas

  • Toto Isu (Nguzu Nguzu): War Canoe Prow Figureheads from the Solomon Islands Tribal People:

  • Richard Alvin Pohrt, Master Collector of the American Indian Frontier Recognition:

  • Thoughts Over an Attribution


Autumn/Winter, 1998  

Art on View: 

  • Maori Art at The British Museum 

  • Classicism in Ancient Mexico: Teotihuacan  

Features: 

  • Funerary Art of Madagascar 

  • War Charms of The Admiralty Islands


Summer, 1998 

Features: 
  • Art as Cosmology: Cheyanne Women's Rawhide Painting 
  • The Pacific Gallery at The South Australian Museum 
  • African Pipes 
Real or Fake?: 
  • Microanalysis: The Final Word: Examining Pre-Columbian Stone Sculptures for Antiquity

Spring, 1998 

Art on View:

  • An African Art Donation to the Museums in LeMans

Features:

  • Art and Life: The Bul-ul Figures of the Ifugao

  • Nicaragua and Its Lost Pre-Columbian

  • Heritage Strange and Fascinating Nyikaryi 

Tribal People:

  • Carl Schuster

Winter, 1997

Art on View:

  • Art and The Individual in Baule Life

Features:

  • Lower NigerSky Pebbles:Notes on the Cook Islands 

  • Highlands Art of New Guinea 

Point of View: 

  • Arctic Abstractions


autumn 97 cover Autumn 1997

Art on View: 

  • The Arts of Vanuatu at the Porte Doree in Paris

Features:

  • In The Land of the Slit Gongs That Are Still Standing
  • Beauty and the Beholder: Exceptional Versus Ordinary African Weapons
  • The Weaver's Muse: Heddle Pulleys in West Africa 

Real or Fake?:

  • Akan Goldweights Tribal People: 

  • The Richard Faletti Family Collection


summer 97 cover Summer 1997

Art on View:

  • The Spirit of Ancient Peru

Feature:

  • Mbuti Design: Pygmy Art of Ituri, Zaire
  • Forgotten Islands of the Bismark Archipelago: The Hermits and Kaniets
  • Textiles and Carpets of Tribal Morocco

Real and Fake:

  • Lessons in Ancient Yarn: Ancient Peruvian Textiles

Tribal People:

  • Nancy Ingram Nooter and Robert Nooter: Collectors of Beauty and Grace

spring 97 cover

Spring 1997

Art on View:

  • Plains Indians Drawings
  • Oceania: Curios, Navigators and Scholars

Feature:

  • In the Wake of the Massa Movement Among the Senufo
  • Massim Lime Spatulas by the Master of the Prominent Eyes

Real and Fake:

  • Pre-Colombian Costa Rican Jade

autumn 1996 cover Autumn 1996

Art on View:

  • The Living Tradition of Yup'ik Masks
  • African Form and Imagery Detroit Collects

Feature:

  • The Lutes of the Santal
  • Focus: Pounders of the Pacific Islands
  • Viewpoint: Jan Elson--Fatal Beauty, Tips for Collectors of African Weapons

summer 1996 cover Summer 1996

Art on View:

  • Africa: The Art of a Continent

Feature:

  • The Treasure of Kalumbi
  • The Buli Master
  • Viewpoint: Joshua Baer--The Last Blankets, Navajo Double Saddle Blankets

Real and Fake:

  • Dayak Brass Earrings

Tribal People:

  • Harry Beran

Spring 1996 cover Spring 1996

Art on View:

  • The Olmec World: Ritual and Rulership
  • A Passion for Indonesian Art: the Georg Tillman Collection

Feature:

  • Herbert Ward: Explorer, Writer, Sculptor, and Collector
  • Viewpoint: Dennis Anderson--Photographing Tribal Art

Tribal People:

  • Marc Blackburn

winter 1995/6 cover Winter 1995

Art on View:

  • Eugene and Claire Thaw Collection of American Indian Art
  • African Art from the Han Coray Collection, 1916-1928

Feature:

  • The Yoruba
  • Himalayas: Hidden of Revealed Faces

Real and Fake:

  • Vetting

Tribal People:

  • Jean Willy Mestach

autumn 1995 cover Autumn 1995

Art on View:

  • Heritage: Native American Art from the Masco Collection
  • Sydney's Hidden Treasure: The Macleay Museum
  • Protection, Power, and Display

Feature:

  • High-Backed Stools: A Transcultural Tradition
  • Ceremonial Art of the Nuxalk
  • Focus: An Introduction to Oceanic Fish Hooks

Real and Fake:

  • Pende ivory Ikhoko


Summer 1995 cover Summer 1995

Art on View:

  • Ancient Peruvian Mantles
  • Gold of the Indonesian Archipelago
  • Art of Central Panama

Feature:

  • The Artistic Typology of East Africa, Indonesia, and Madagascar
  • Tribal Art of the Himalayas
  • Focus: Figurative Spoons and Ladles
  • Viewpoint: Marc Ginzberg--African Crafts
  • Restoration: Wood Care

Real and Fake:

  • Art and Technology at the Indianapolis Museum of Art

Tribal People:

  • Tom Philips

spring 1995 cover Spring, 1995

Art on View:

  • Tervuren: The Rediscovery of a Great Museum

Feature:

  • Modern Times, 1935/46
  • The Senufo
  • Amulets of the Papuan Gulf
  • The History of collecting Native American Art, Part 2, the 19th and 20th Centuries
  • Restoration: Preserving the Tangible and Non-Tangible in Native American Art

Real and Fake:

  • The Elusive Chi Wara

Tribal People:

  • Terence Barrow

winter 1994/5 cover Winter 1994

Art on View:

  • The Royal Albert Museum of Exeter

Feature:

  • A Polynesian God and the Missionaries
  • Lime Spatulas from Massim
  • Art of the Ipiutak
  • The History of Collecting Native American Art, Part1, the Early Years
  • Focus: Kabylie Ritual Pottery
  • Restoration: Basket Conservation

Real and Fake:

  • Authentication by Thermoluminescence

Tribal People:

  • Erle Loran


autumn 1994 cover Autumn 1994

Art on View:

  • Art of Indonesia at UCLA
  • Treasures of the Volkerkunde Museum, Vienna
  • The Antwerp Museum of Anthropology

Feature:

  • Keaka, Kaka, and "Kaka"
  • Art in Situ: A Brief Visit to Vanuatu
  • Restoration: A Yoruba Crown

Real and Fake:

  • Pre-historic Pottery of the Southwest

Tribal People:

  • Jerome Lionel Joss

summer 1994 cover Summer 1994

Art on View:

  • Divine Protection: Batak Art of Northern Sumatra
  • Hopi Kachina Dolls
  • Gold of the Gods

Feature:

  • Asmat Ancestor Art
  • Fang Statuary
  • Restoration: A Maya Bowl

Real and Fake:

  • Mezcala Stone Figures

spring 1994 cover Spring 1994

Art on View:

  • The Sculptural Artistry of the Taino
  • Paradise Lost: Change and Continuity in the New Guinea Highlands

Feature:

  • Lobi Statuary
  • The Art of Abolition
  • Art In Situ: Rapa Nui
  • Restoration: Repairing a Quileute Flicker Rattle

Real and Fake:

  • A New Guinea Bowl

Tribal People:

  • Leo and Lillian Fortess

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