Visual Arts TodayVisual Arts TodayChapter Twenty: Arts of the Pacific

and of the Americas

Sarah Greening Elizabeth GalanPaola Quijada

Pacific CulturesPacific Cultures

Duk Duk MaskersDuk Duk Maskers

East New Britain, Papua New Guinea.

Ahu NaunauAhu Naunau

Stone figures on Ahu Naunau, Anakena, Easter Island

(Rapanui), Chile

Feather CloakFeather Cloak

Hawaii, Feathers. Fiber height 5’9” The British Museum,

London.

Duk Duk Maskers Deku Scrubs

Deku Scubs first appeared in The Legends of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. They have a plant

like body and have the ability to shoot deku nuts.

The dukduk society belong to the Tolai people of New Britain. Their costume of

leaves represent nature and natural order of things.

MesoamericaMesoamerica

Colassal HeadColassal Head

Olmec, 1500-300 B.C.E. Basalt, height c. 8’. Museo de Antropologia, Veracruz

Pyramid of the SunPyramid of the Sun

Teotichuacan, Mexcio, 50-200 C.E.

Sarcophagus LidSarcophagus Lid

From the temple of inscriptions, Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico.

Maya, late Classic period, 684 C.E. Limestone

Pyramid of the Sun St. Joseph’s Church

North AmericaNorth America

Tabbed Skin BagTabbed Skin Bag

Ottawa Culture. Eastern Great Lakes, c. 1790, black dyed deerskin, New York State

Historical Association

Hide Painted with Scenes of Hide Painted with Scenes of WarfareWarfare

Western Lakota Culture, North or South Dakota, c. 1880. Horsehide and pigments

branded

Bowl with Mountain SheepBowl with Mountain Sheep

Ceramic, Mimbres PeoplesNew Mexico, mid 9th–12th

Century

Tabbed Skin Bag Prada Deerskin Leather Fringe Bag

Deerskin Leather , 2007Ottawa Culture. Black-dyed deerskin

Eastern Great Lakes, 1790