South Pacific
Ceramics
Ceramics is one of Australia’s major craft forms and can be found throughout the country. As a continent, Australia has a wide variety of...
Bush jewellery
In Australia there are Aboriginal individuals who use techniques new and old to produce items that are worn on the body. Many of these...
Bounty Hat
The Bounty hat is from Norfolk Island. The method for making the hat has been handed down through the generations on Norfolk Island since...
Wooden boat construction
Watercraft have been used in Australia for over 50,000 years. The first peoples travelled from Indonesian Islands by watercraft and established the Aboriginal culture...
Tamtam (Slit Drums)
Intricately carved large vertical wooden slit drums of stunning appearance are possibly Vanuatu’s best-known art forms in the outside world. From the island of...
Mask making
Mask making is regulated and protected by numerous traditional taboos and levels of secrecy. The latter restrictions are still part of normal life in...
Erromango Nemas
Until the end of the nineteenth century, the production of nemas (barkcloth) was found widely distributed around island of Erromango.
Nemas was made from a...
Textiles
Textile practitioners in Aotearoa New Zealand draw upon a range of cultural traditions—indigenous, introduced and culturally cross-pollinated.
Māori weaving
Māori weaving, as other forms of...
Whakairo rakau (Māori wood carving)
Whakairo (Māori wood carving) was brought over by Pacific ancestors when they migrated to New Zealand c900CE. Over the centuries, it evolved from geometric...
Māori weaving
The three main techniques used by Māori weavers are raranga, taaniko and whatu. Using these techniques to weave flora and fauna native to the...
Kākahu (Māori cloaks)
Despite having a limited range of raw materials and natural dyes, Maori weavers created a remarkable assortment of kākahu (cloaks) that ranged from prestigious...
Māori Basketry
Pre-European Aotearoa/New Zealand, a time when Māori baskets were prolific, used as containers for food storage, gathering shellfish, fern roots, ceremonial rituals, medicinal plants...