Adorning the World
Subtitle: Art of the Marquesas Islands
Contributors: Metropolitan Museum of Art (Other Contributor)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
Published: January 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781588391469
Subjects: Folk & Outsider Art; Art & Art Instruction
First sentence: The Marquesas Islands, which lie some eight hundred miles northeast of Tahiti, were first revealed to the wider world when the Spanish explorer Alvaro de Mendaña de Neira (1542? 1595) accidentally encountered the archipelago in 1595.