Photographs taken of African sculptures by Walker Evans for a 1935 Metropolitan Museum exhibit.

Perfect Documents: Walker Evans and African Art, 1935

EVANS, Walker

Webb, Virginia-Lee

Metropolitan Museum of Art, The

Coaxing the Spirits to Dance explores the relationship between social life and artistic expression since the nineteenth century in one of the most important art-producing regions of Papua New Guinea. It includes a stunning presentation of hand-carved and hand-painted ancestor boards, masks, drums, skull racks, and personal items. 
Each society on the Papuan Gulf had its own elaborate traditions of carved, painted, or decorated masks, boards, and hand drums that filled the men's longhouses for use in dances and performances. Today these art objects offer a glimpse into the varied cosmologies and ritual lives of these surprisingly diverse societies before they were changed significantly through their contact with the West.

Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art And Society in the Papuan Gulf of New Guinea

Arts & Photography

Welsch, Robert L.

Haraha, Sebastian

History & Criticism

Hood Museum of Art

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