Pacific art: persistence, change, and meaning

Part 1 : Interrogating the past through the photographic image

Using photographs to visualise the art of the Kilenge / Philip J.C. Dark

E.T. Gilliard's ethnographic photographs on the middle Sepik River: Kanganaman village, 1953-54 / George A. Corbin

Authorship and image: Hand-coloured glass lantern-slides from the Crane Pacific Expedition / Virginia-Lee Webb.

Part 2 : Defining and contesting identities through art

The persistence of facial scarification as body art in the eastern Solomon Islands / William H. Davenport

Art and identity in the Mariana Islands: The reconstruction of 'ancient' Chamorro dance / Judy Flores

A new hale for the nation: The Center for Hawaiian Studies, Manoa Campus, University of Hawai'i / Joshua A. Bell

From utilitarian to sacred: The transformation of a traditional Hawaiian object / Angela J. Neller

Cook Islands tivaevae: Migration and the display of culture in Aotearoa/New Zealand / Phyllis S. Herda

Museums and indigenous identity: Asmat carving in a global context / Nick Stanley.

Part 3 : Exploring museums, collectors and meanings

What's in a name? The search for meaning / Shirley Campbell

Exploring Solomon Islands shields: Vehicles of power in the changing museum contexts / Deborah Waite

'A stranger in a new land': Kenneth Thomas in the North Sepik region of Papua New Guinea / Barry Craig

Objects mediating relationships: The Raymond Firth Collection from Tikopia, Solomon Islands, 1928 / Liz Bonshek

In the spirit of a different time: The legacy of early collecting practices in the Pacific / Carol E. Mayer

Objects, agency and museums: Continuing dialogues between the Torres Strait and Cambridge / Anita Herle.

Part 4 : Studying agency and objects

The gateways of Maketu: Ngati Pikiao carving style and the persistence of form / Roger Neich

'Te Maori' in the longer view / Peter Gathercole

Reconstructing the Rapa Nui carver's perspective: Observations on the experimental replication of moai on Easter Island / Jo Anne Van Tilberg and Christian Arevalo Pakarati

The structure of Tongan barkcloth design: Imagery, metaphor and allusion / Adrienne L. Kaeppler

Memorial images of eastern Fiji: Materials, metaphors and meanings / Steven Hooper

The craft of the Spider Woman: A history of bark baskets in the Tiwi Islands / Eric Venbrux.

Part 5 : Negotiating change in contemporary Pacific art

The impact of commercial development of art on traditional culture in the Solomon Islands / Victor Totu

Contemporary Maori art and Berlin's Ethnological Museum / Marcus Schindlbeck

Painting for corroboree, painting for kartiya: Contemporary Aboriginal art in the East Kimberley, Western Australia / Eric Kjellgren

Transformations: Appreciation, appropriation and imagery in Indigenous Australian art / J.V.S. Megaw

Beyond all limits / Philippe Peltier

Marquesan art at the millennium / Carol S. Ivory

The island in the urban: Contemporary Pacific art in New Zealand / Karen Stevenson.