Melanesian Encounters

Archives, collections and exhibitions

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (query=Neu Guinea)
Musée du Quai Branly - use for instance query 'Nouvelle Guinee'
Musée du Quai Branly - Sepik, Arts de Papouasie (video)
Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin - Kunst vom Sepik (video)
Collectie Wereldmuseum (query=Papua)
Collectie Nederland (query=Papua)
Tropenmuseum - Oceania (ME*)
Tropenmuseum - Bisj poles exhibition (ME*)
Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam (ME*)
Museum Volkenkunde - Oceania (ME*)
Missiemuseum Steyl - flickr photoset
National Museum of Australia (query=Papua)
Museums Victoria collections (query=Papua)
Art Gallery of New South Wales (query=Papua)
Pitt Rivers Museum (query=Papua New Guinea)
Bisj poles at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (youtube)
Metropolitan Museum of Art - flickr photoset
Metropolitan Museum of Art - gallery views
American Museum of Asmat Art (video)
De Young Museum - Jolika Collection (video)
British Museum - Collection online (query=Papua)
Asmat museum Agats (video)
CSULB archaeology collection - Sepik river carvings
USCNGP collection from the upper and central Sepik river regions
Drum museum - New Guinea
Oceanic Archive
André Breton - collection arts primitifs


Books, magazines and catalogues

Nieuw Guinea, Frederik Muller (1867)
Mr. Theodore F. Bevan's Fifth expedition to British New Guinea 1887
Nova Guinea - Dr. Arthur Wichmann (1903)
Exploratie Noord Nieuw-Guinea 1909-1910
Forschungen im innern Neuguinea (1910)
Reisen in Kaiser Wilhelmsland - Dr. Otto Schlaginhafen (1910)
Pearls and Savages - Frank Hurley 1924
Sepik - Bernard de Grunne
Arts of the South Seas by Ralph Linton (1946)
Sotheby's - Collection Elisabeth Pryce
Parcours des Mondes - Catalogues on issuu
Catalogues Tribal Art Auktions - Zemanek-Muenster
Sotheby's (query=Papua)
Karin Zemanek-Muenster - Catalogues Tribal Art auctions (issuu)
Antiquesreporter - Guy Earl-Smith
Bergpapoea's van Nieuw Guinea I - Le Roux 1948
Bergpapoea's van Nieuw Guinea II - Le Roux 1950
Bergpapoea's van Nieuw Guinea III - Le Roux 1950
People of the Mamberamo River basin 1926-1939
Expeditions Dutch New Guinea 1926-1939 - KNAG
Other archives 'Nieuw Guinea'- KNAG
Literature on Papua (mostly Dutch) - Papua Heritage
Asmat objects collected by Father Viegen - Karel Weener
Asmat - albums Jacques Hoogerbrugge
Korwar collection Henry Blekkink - Karel Weener
Tribal Art Magazine
Publications Michael Hamson

Quetschkolben von Berlinhafen-Dr. Oskar Nuoffer (1917)
Ethnology of Vanuatu-Felix Speiser (1926)
The native peoples of New Guinea, M.W. Stirling (1943)
Art of the Pacific Islands in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Oceania at the Tropenmuseum
Nieuw-Guinea: Kunstvormen en stijlgebieden, Simon Kooijman
De kunst van Nieuw-Guinea, Simon Kooijman
Kultuurpatronen, Jac Hoogerbrugge
Asmatkunst, Jac Hoogerbrugge Massim art, Barry Craig
Slit Gongs of the Sepik and Madang Provinces Barry Craig
Océanie, Philippe Bourgoin
Zeichen am Sepik, Silke Olig 2006
Studies in Oceanic Art and Culture
Korewori: magic art from the rain forest, Christian Kaufmann
The mountain Arapesh, Margaret Mead
Serge Schoffel - 'Art en Premier'
Barkcloth Art of the Omie - Cavin-Morris Gallery
The traditional pottery of PNG


Photography

Staatliche museen zu Berlin - Kaiserin Augusta Fluss expedition
British Museum - Gelatin silver print 'Papua'
British Museum - Lady Vera Delves Broughton
Papua Heritage - Papua archive
Papua Heritage - Shields from Digul, Mappi and Asmat region
Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen - 'Papua'
KNAG (Utrechts Archief) - Expeditions Dutch New Guinea
Erfgoed Kloosterleven - Early footage of the Marind anim
Ulrich Kortmann - Field Photos
Detours des Mondes - Arts lointains, Espaces de cultures
Tribal Collective - Field photographs
Arthur Beau Palmer
Barry Craig (USCNGP) - Photo albums
Rita Willaert - Papua New Guinea
John Tyman - Torembi and the Sepik
Eric Lafforgue - Vanuatu


Video

Videos Papua - Papoea Erfgoed
Videos Papua - Papua Heritage
Le Ciel et la Boue - Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau
Wim van Oijen - Asmat men drumming
Wim van Oijen - Men's house ceremony in Komor part I
Wim van Oijen - Men's house ceremony in Komor part II
Karl Muller - Videos Asmat
Spencer Weart - Asmat ceremonies (2015)
Travel Documentaries - Asmat bisj (with historic footage)
Kevin Conru - The Oldman Collection, Maori art in London
Tighten the Drums: Self-Decoration Among the Enga
Frank Hurley - Pearls and Savages (1923)
Peoples of the South Seas (1918)
Global Vision - Washkuk art
Guardians of the (Ramu) River
Watson Kintner collection - PNG 1957 #42
Watson Kintner collection - PNG 1957 #43