Announcements

Staff Announcement | Dr. Karen Stevenson | Oceania Center for Arts, Cultures and Pacific Studies

Karen Stevenson, PhD, has been named Senior Lecturer in Pacific Studies at the Oceania Centre for Arts, Cultures and Pacific Studies.  read more »

2012 Oceanic Arts Forum | South Australian Museum | May 18 -20, 2012

2012 Forum: The Block Buster Experience
3,000 Pacific Objects, 3000 Aboriginal Objects, World Experts
South Australian Museum
Adelaide, South Australia
May 18-20, 2012

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Who owned it before you? Unobvious catalogue numbers inscribed on and labels attached to Oceanic artworks in collections.

Who owned it before you? Unobvious catalogue numbers inscribed on and labels attached to Oceanic artworks in collections.

Some private collectors and dealers inscribed registration numbers or other information on artworks in their collections. Some public institutions did the same and later deaccessioned some of their objects. Some early field collectors attached labels to artworks that are now in collections.
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