Exhibition curator Allison Martino discusses how malagan masks from New Ireland (a province of Papua New Guinea) reveal connections between Oceania and Maine during the nineteenth century. She considers the historical circulation and collecting practices of these ephemeral masks and their significance today. Martino is the Laura and Raymond Wielgus Curator of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and Indigenous Art of the Americas at the Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University..

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Presented by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in conjunction with the exhibition Masks of Memories: Art and Ceremony in Nineteenth Century Oceania.

Illustration: Malagan Mask, polychrome, wood, natural fiber, and shell, 19th century by an unknown artist.  Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Gift of Harold M. Sewall.