Join curator Maia Nuku to celebrate the renovation and reopening of the Arts of Oceania galleries in the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing.
NoŋgirrŋaMarawili (ca. 1939–2023), and hear how artists from Mariwai village, Papua New Guinea
The Friends of The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing: Art of Five Continents program provides an opportunity for special access to the Collection and more.
signature installation of monumental bisj spirit poles from the Asmat region of New Guinea
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Baga artist; Guinea (1979.206.101) Left: Diadem with a Pair of Gazelle Heads, ca
[Aaron Furman Gallery, New York, until 1959]; Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York, on loan to The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1959–1964; The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1964–1978
Learn more about this artwork Timeline of Art History Chronology Guinea Coast,
Learn more about this artwork Timeline of Art History Chronology Guinea Coast,
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Palette shaped like a guinea fowl ca. 3500–3300 B.C.
Learn more about this artwork Timeline of Art History Chronology Guinea Coast,
Rockefeller Gift, 1967 Object Number: 1978.412.1515 Kibler, New Guinea, collected
Many of the works on view gained international fame as fresh sources of inspiration for early twentieth-century Western avant-garde artists, who collected them and kept them in their studios. The excitement generated by those works when they first came to In
in the exhibition relate to fourteen distinct traditions in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea
Strategically located between southern gold-producing regions and Saharan salt mines like Taghaza, the kingdoms of the western Sudan were well positioned to amass great wealth through the taxation of imports and exports.
between the vast Sahara Desert to the north and the tropical rainforests of the Guinea
