Pacific encounters : art & divinity in Polynesia 1760-1860 /

Hooper, Steven.

Pacific encounters : art & divinity in Polynesia 1760-1860 / Art and divinity in Polynesia 1760-1860 Steven Hooper. - London : British Museum Press, 2006. - 287 p. : col. ill., maps ; 28 cm.

Published to accompany the exhibition: Pacific encounters : art and divinity in Polynesia 1760-1860, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich 21 May-13 August 2006. Book and exhibition part of the research project: Polynesian visual arts : meanings and histories in Pacific and European cultural contexts.

Includes bibliography and index.

071412575X (pbk.) 978071412576

9780714125756


British Museum--Exhibitions.


Polynesia--Civilization--Exhibitions.
Polynesia--Antiquities--Exhibitions.
Art, Polynesian--Exhibitions.
Polynesians--Material culture--Exhibitions.