Author(s): Nicholas Thomas

Maori & Pacific | History & Theory

?An eloquent reading of images produced by peoples in the Pacific? ? Art Monthly Looking at and beyond the dazzling colours and patterns of the ?primitive? art of the Pacific Islands to explore the significance of the art, past and present. Nicholas Thomas shows how each region is characterized by its own distinctive art forms and practices ? among them Maori ancestral carvings and rituals of exchange and warfare in the Solomon Islands.