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On our way to New Zealand we stopped in Tahiti for a bit, before flying onto the Cook Islands, where we'd spend a few days on the atoll of Aitutaki.
Upon arrival to Moorea Island in the heart of French Polynesia, you will immediately be awestruck by it's natural beauty...
Braço de Kiko, design exclusivo.
Tattoo em progresso, ainda com muito
preenchimento e retoque pela frente.
We camped just inside the palm trees on this beautiful beach on Mo'orea, French Polynesia. Stunning snorkelling and natural beauty made this a great bargain at $10/day!
far left: Door plank (joyo jopo or tale)
New Caledonia, French Polynesia
late 19th century. Object Place: New Caledonia, French Polynesia; Object Place: New Caledonia
others: Papua New Guinea
centre right: Yipwon figure Middle Sepik River, Papua New Guinea 20th century
Object Place: Papua New Guinea; Object Place: Middle Sepik river, Sepik River
Overall: 97.2 cm (38 1/4 in.)
ACCESSION NUMBER 2014.306
Wood
Arts of Asia, Oceania, and Africa Gallery (Gallery 177)
far right: Suspension hook
Iatmul peoples, Sepik River, Papua New Guinea
20th century
Object Place: Village of Aibom, Ambunti district, Middle Sepik River area, New Guinea
91.44 x 27.9 x 15.2 cm (36 x 11 x 6 in.)
ACCESSION NUMBER 1991.1077
Wood, fiber, shell, and pigment
Arts of Asia, Oceania, and Africa Gallery (Gallery 177) Although most figurative suspension hooks found throughout the Middle Sepik region have a flat lower element resembling an anchor or half moon, their style varies greatly. They range in size from twelve to eight inches. Very large hooks with elaborately carved figures may have hung in men’s ceremonial houses as sculptures rather than as utilitarian objects. Like freestanding figures, which resemble them in style and size, they may have ritual significance, representing protective clan spirits. This hook from the ceremonial men’s house in the latmul village of Aibom was collected during a 1963 census. The hook proper is a pointed half-moon shape with a raised relief of a schematic face. It supports a slender, round-shouldered female figure standing hands-to-hips with flexed legs and arms. The artist emphasized the large face with its long nose, pierced septum, and shell eyes by painting curvilinear lines and circles on the white surface, thus echoing the face painting of latmul women. White accents enhance the dark body and limbs, and raffia attachments adorn the ears, septum, and wrists.
It may have just been our tour experience, but Bora Bora looked like a spent hooker to me-- the kind with marks on her arm. Do yourself a favor and skip Bora Bora if you can, the people and places are just trashy.
While this picture is rather nice, it's one of about 40-- the rest are ugly. If I had turned the other direction, this shot would have been of gangly, stray dogs peeing on our bus.