Art 104 Project

1. Oceania
and Polynesia
Presented By:
Moureen Caroro
Berenice Chavez
Lindsay Backer
Jake Taylor
Thanya Hernandez
Melissa Hines
Emilio Castillo

2. Oceania and Polynesia
• Made up of over 20,000 islands
• Oceania is split into three sections
• Melanasia
• Polynesia
• Micronesia

3. Hawaii
Presented By:
Moureen Caroro

4. Hawaiian Islands

5. The Flower Lei
• Used for many occasions and is offered with a kiss and removed only in
private.

6. The Hula
Hula Kahiko is accompanied in the Hawaiian language along with drums and is
performed for storytelling or for religious ceremonial purposes.
Hula auana is colorful,
fun, upbeat and musical.
Dances are
accompanied by song in
English or Hawaiian, as
well as ukuleles and
piano guitars.

7. The Legends
• A way to document history, knowledge, facts, and beliefs from generation to
generation.
• Has many superstitions and omens. Rain and rainbows are considered
blessings from gods. Its still considered bad luck to bring bananas on a boat,
to step over a baby who is lying on the floor and to wear a lei if you’re
pregnant.

8. Tattoos
Native designs designate
tribe and hierarchy.
Black ink was made up of
kukui nut ashes and
sugarcane juice. Some
contents were poisonous
and ancient instruments
would’ve meant extreme
pain.
Designs have several meanings
and can symbolize tiki face,
turtles, oceans, shark teeth, the
sun, etc.

9. “Local Food”
Spam Musubi!!!!
• A popular snack or lunch food in Hawaii that is portable and inexpensive. Very
common in convenient stores, such as Seven Eleven and Food Land.

10. Tonga
Presented By:
Berenice Chavez

11. Tribal Art
• In Tonga, the tribal art has an all
over pattern of angular detail
containing minute human figures.

12. Tonga, Polynesia, 1967 Barkcloth
• In Tonga, the production of
decorated barkcloth, or ngatu,
involves dyeing, painting,
stenciling, and perfuming. Mele
Sitani made this one with two-
bird design for the coronation of
Tupou IV.

13. Barkcloth..
• Tapa production reached its peak in the early 19th century
• Artists produce barkcloth from the inner bark of the paper
mulberry tree.
• When the production of Barkcloth reached its zenith, tapa
became the most widely used term, in addition barkcloth
has a spiritual dimension in that it can confer sanctity upon
an object wrapped in it. The Polynesians traditionally
wrapped the bodies of high-ranking deceased chiefs in
barkcloth.
• Tapa was intended for ceremonial or ritual purposes was
dyed, painted, stenciled, and sometimes perfumed
• The designs applied to the tapa differed depending upon
the particular island group producing it and the function of
the cloth.

14. Female Figure- Early 19th century
(Ha'apai Archipelago)
• The ivory figures of the Ha'apai Islands of
Tonga probably represent female deities or
prominent ancestors, for whom the figures
served as vessels (vaka) in which the power of
the divinity resided. Normally kept in shrines,
many figures also have a hole in the back of
the head or neck and were reportedly worn
by high-ranking female chiefs as ornaments
on important occasions.
• Artists created the rich patina of the figures
by anointing them with coconut oil and
smoking them over a fire fed with sugar cane
or sweet tubers, imparting a golden hue to
the surface that accentuates the natural grain
of the ivory.

15. Tonga Chigaro Stool
• These, now African art,
Tonga stools were
important status symbols
used by the head of the
household and known as
Chigaro to the Tonga
people.
• Material: Wood
• Size: 7.25" (18.42 cm)

16. Tahiti
Presented By
Lindsay Backer

17. • Largest island in French
Polynesia.
• Island has a long held fascination
with Westerners.
• Islanders are referred to as
Maohi.

18. • Tahitian art served two
functions.
• To honor and communicate with
the gods, spirits, and ancestors.
• To accompany the bodies of
chiefs, warriors, and other high-
ranking individuals.

19. • A lot of their art: landscapes,
paintings, weaving, carving.
• Colors in paintings are vivid.
• Many naturalistic views: body
and landscape.

20. • Found by Bristish sea captian in
1822.
• Figure may represent a god,
spirit. Or sorcery.
• Large belly: dwelling of emotions
and human soul.
Double Headed Figure

21. • Made with wood, husk fiber and
feather.
• Feathers are supernatural and
provide power to it.
• Oro art was taken and made
abstractly.
Image Representing the God Oro

22. • Made with whale ivory and fiber.
• Once owned by the Tahitian
royal family.
• Functional objects – just like
today. Craft showed social
status.
Handle for a Fly Whisk

23. Rapa Nui
Presented By
Jake Taylor

24. Rapa Nui Island
• Rapa Nui Island is the
eastern most Polynesian
island out of the entire
Oceanic and Polynesian
cultures.
• Currently 3000 people
occupy the island, mainly
in the village of Hanga Roa
of the west coast.
• Over 2000 miles away
from both Tahiti and Chile
• The Final Step of Human
Migration

25. Headdresses
• The Rapa Nui people created
headdresses very similar to
those found in Tahiti
• There is a recognizable
difference between male and
female headdress.
• A large amount of the
headdresses were made out of
bark cloth with added feathers.

26. Bark cloth
• The designs of the Bark Cloth
were made by a technique using
a bone needle.
• Created by beaten soaken strips
of bark into strips to create a
cloth like substance.

27. Wood Carved Figures
• Representation of eyes by means
of a shell ring with a black
obsidian pupil, are among the
most remarkable in all Polynesia.
• Heads are exaggerated much like
the Moai sculptures.
• The tools used to create the
sculptures are from the same
material that the Moai are
sculptured out of.

28. Moai Sculptures
• Carved out of a volcanic
stone called tuff.
• Cut from the quarry of the
Volcano, Rano Kau
• Moai had multiple
representations such as
family tribal gods or village
elders
• The Platform here is believed
to represent village chiefs
and elders

29. Moai Figures
• The figures are pointed inland
watching over the lives of the
people.
• Because the Island was so isolated,
early settlers believed they were
the only ones on earth.
• In some ways the Moai are pointing
inward to protect the people from
the unknown.

30. Cost of building the Moai
• Many archeologist call the sacrifice
of building the Moai Eco-Suicide
• The Rapa Nui people destroyed
thousands of trees and large
amounts of land to move the Moai
into place.
• This led to harsh ecological
devastation.

31. New Ireland
Presented By
Thanya
Hernandez

32. • New Ireland is part of a modern nation East of Papua New Guinea
• It has a population of 118,350 and is primarily a dense rainforest.
• There is an estimated total of 20 spoken languages and an estimated
total of 45 sub-dialects.
• Most people live in a small rural villages and are sustenance famers.
They grow sweet potato's, taro, cassava, copra and cacao.

34. Tatanua Masks
• Tatanua masks are primarily made of soft wood, vegetable fibers and
rattan. The eye balls are made of sea snail opercula.
• These masks are used to represent the spirits of the dead and were
used during ceremonial rituals such as malanggans.
• The crested hair is meant to depict the common hairstyle that was
shared among the men.
• After they were used, the masks were recycled for future use or were
put up for display in their homes simply for decorative purposes.

36. Funerary Figures (Kulap)
• Kulap figures were used to represent individuals who had recently died
• They were created by specialists who lived near the limestone quarries in
the Rossel Mountains.
• When a family member died, a male relative would journey to the
mountains and acquire a male or female Kulap, depending on the gender
of the deceased.
• After he returned, the Kulap was placed in a shrine inside a ceremonial
building.
• The Kulap sole purpose was to serve as a temporary abode for the spirit of
the dead in order to prevent the spirit to cause harm to the living.
• After an appropriate amount of time, the figures were destroyed and the
souls of the deceased passed.

38. Malanggan Rites
• Memorial festivities were common practices in New Ireland,
specifically the Northern areas.
• Malanggan rites originate from an ancestor cult which allows the
passing soul to transition from the world of the living to the realm of
the dead.
• Such rites not only allows the passing of a soul, but it greatly
promoted social gatherings and helped stimulate their economy.
• In order to educate their younger generation, malanggan ceremonies
were used for the initiation of young men.

39. New
Zealand
Presented By
Melissa Hines

40. Māori Meetinghouses

43. Tattooing

47. Weaving

49. Dance