1. Visual Arts Today
Chapter Twenty: Arts of the Pacific
and of the Americas
Sarah Greening
Elizabeth Galan
Paola Quijada

2. Pacific Cultures

3. Duk Duk Maskers
East New Britain, Papua New
Guinea.

4. Ahu Naunau
Stone figures on Ahu Naunau,
Anakena, Easter Island (Rapanui),
Chile

5. Feather Cloak
Hawaii, Feathers. Fiber height 5’9”
The British Museum, London.

6. Duk Duk Maskers Deku Scrubs
Deku Scubs first appeared in The Legends of
Zelda: Ocarina of Time. They have a plant like
body and have the ability to shoot deku nuts.
The dukduk society belong to the Tolai people of
New Britain. Their costume of leaves represent
nature and natural order of things.

7. Mesoamerica

8. Colassal Head
Olmec, 1500-300 B.C.E. Basalt,
height c. 8’. Museo de Antropologia,
Veracruz

9. Pyramid of the Sun
Teotichuacan, Mexcio, 50-200 C.E.

10. Sarcophagus Lid
From the temple of inscriptions,
Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico.
Maya, late Classic period, 684 C.E.

11. Pyramid of the Sun St. Joseph’s Church

12. North America

13. Tabbed Skin Bag
Ottawa Culture. Eastern Great
Lakes, c. 1790, black dyed
deerskin, New York State Historical

14. Hide Painted with Scenes of
Warfare
Western Lakota Culture, North or
South Dakota, c. 1880. Horsehide
and pigments branded

15. Bowl with Mountain Sheep
Ceramic, Mimbres Peoples
New Mexico, mid 9th–12th Century

16. Tabbed Skin Bag
Prada Deerskin Leather Fringe
Bag
Deerskin Leather , 2007
Ottawa Culture. Black-dyed deerskin
Eastern Great Lakes, 1790