Research from Oceanic Art in The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing
Library and Archive
The Robert Goldwater Library is a noncirculating research library dedicated to the documentation of the visual arts of sub-Saharan Africa, the Pacific Islands, and Native and Precolumbian America.
Lecture
Join leading experts for presentations and discussion exploring Indigenous cultural heritage sites in Oceania, with project case studies on Samoa and Buka Island that highlight the unique ways mobility, ocean navigation, and cosmology influence the region's expansive sense of spatial and built environments.
Essays
Mutuaga’s spatula at The Met is a product of innovation and adaptation in the face of sweeping colonial and missionary incursions into the Territory of Papua.
Sylvia Cockburn and Susan Abel
January 28, 2025
Among the Toba Batak peoples of Indonesia, ritual specialists known as datu used vessels to mediate between the human and supernatural world.
Maia Nuku
June 28, 2022