Carol E.Mayer
June 11th, 2025
UBC’s Museum of Anthropology has Canada’s largest collection of objects from Oceania (more than 3,500) and its Research Fellow and curator of the Pacific Islands, Carol E. Mayer, has now written about them in Sea of Islands: Exploring Objects, Stories, and Memories from Oceania (Figure 1 $55). Artifacts include jewellery, barkcloths, woven mats, carvings and canoes from places like Australia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, the Marquesas Islands, Vanuatu and many more places as depicted in over 250 photos as well as images from Oceanic communities for context. Mayer has been honoured with awards from museum associations and a medal from Vanuatu for her cultural contributions. 9781773271552
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