Oceanian Section

The Story of Hornbill Ivory

The strange substance called “hornbill ivory” was formerly an important commodity in Asiatic trade, and it was extensively carved, especially […]

Masks

Suggested Reading: The Oceanic Collections of the University Museum

BUCK, P. H. Vikings of the Sunrise, New York, 1938 COLE, F. C. The Peoples of Malaysia, New York, 1945 […]

The Future: The Oceanic Collections of the University Museum

THE future offers divergent paths to the native peoples of the Pacific and in neither case will the route they […]

Historic Cultures of the Pacific: The Oceanic Collections of the University Museum

WHEN the Europeans arrived in the Pacific in the sixteenth century they found representative cultures of the Palaeolithic, Neolithic, Bronze […]

Archaeology: The Oceanic Collections of the University Museum

THE archaeology of the Pacific regions has received scant attention. Very little evidence is available in any of the major […]

Languages: The Oceanic Collections of the University Museum

THE languages spoken in the Pacific area in historic times are numerous and quite diverse in character. In some cases, […]

Living Types of Man in the Pacific Region: The Oceanic Collections of the University Museum

THE lack of archaeological data to show the sequence of physical types of man in the various Pacific areas from […]

Prehistoric Ancestors of Modern Types of Man: The Oceanic Collections of the University Museum

SOMETIME toward the end of the Third Interglacial Period other types of man began to arrive in the East Indies. […]

Prehistoric Types of Man: The Oceanic Collections of the University Museum

So little is known of the archaeology of the Pacific regions that it still is uncertain whether any of the […]