“The ancestors, in a sense, are of the human world, watch over human activities, but are also connected with the larger workings of the cosmos.”
Curator Eric Kjellgren on a mid-1900s towering slit gong from northern Vanuatu.
Contributors
Eric Kjellgren
Evelyn A. J. Hall and John A. Friede Associate Curator for Oceanic Art, Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
Evelyn A. J. Hall and John A. Friede Associate Curator for Oceanic Art, Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
Photography by Oi-Cheong Lee
Field recording courtesy of Eric Kjellgren, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Photographs and field recording courtesy of Eric Kjellgren, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Art Mentioned
Tin Mweleun
mid- to late 1960s
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