Adorning the World
Subtitle: Art of the Marquesas Islands (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: June 11, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9780300107128
Subjects: Decorative arts & crafts; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Polynesia; Folk & Outsider Art; Art / General; General; Art, Marquesan; Exhibitions
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.