The Museum Journal | Oceanian Section

Vol. XIX / No. 1

By: H. U. Hall

A Maori Feeding-Funnel

IN the MUSEUM JOURNAL for December, 1920, a number of objects illustrating the native decorative art of New Zealand were […]

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Vol. XVI / No. 3

By: Henry Usher Hall

A Souvenir Of The Great Explorers

The University Museum has recently received from Alaska an object of quite extraordinary interest, found in an Indian village on […]

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Vol. XVI / No. 2

By: Henry Usher Hall

A Woodcarving From Easter Island

The object figured here from the Museum’s Easter Island collection belongs to a class, of woodcarvings usually referred to in […]

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Vol. XV / No. 4

By: Henry Usher Hall

The Orator’s Staff

Among the Maori of New Zealand and in the Samoan islands oratory had a peculiarly privileged position among the arts. […]

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Vol. XIV / No. 1

By: Henry Usher Hall

Two Hawaiian Feather Garments, Ahuula

Two beautiful and remarkably well preserved examples of the gorgeous feather garments formerly worn by chiefs in the Hawaiian Islands […]

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Vol. XII / No. 4

By: Henry Usher Hall

Art of the Marquesas Islanders

IN the year 1595, the Spanish admiral, Alvaro de Mendaña, sailing westward from Peru in command of an expedition sent […]

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Vol. XII / No. 3

By: Henry Usher Hall

Woodcarvings of the Austral Islands

A prominent feature of the exhibition of Polynesian artifacts in the General Ethnology Section of the Museum is a number […]

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Vol. XII / No. 1

By: Henry Usher Hall

A Book of Tapa

In the year 1787 there was published in London an interesting and curious book styled a CATALOGUE and illustrated with […]

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Vol. XI / No. 4

By: Henry Usher Hall

Maori Wood Carving and Moko

The objects dealt with in this article form part of the exhibition lately arranged in the southeast room on the […]

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Vol. X / No. 4

By: H. U. Hall

New Ireland Masks

There are in the collections of the University Museum numerous objects which illustrate very fairly the life and manners of […]

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