Samoan Art and Artists
Subtitle: O Measina a Samoa
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: January 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780824826758
Subjects: Samoan Islands; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General; Art & Art Instruction; Art; Folk & Outsider Art; Arts, Samoan; New Zealand
Description: "The book has a broad sweep, covering all facets of the Samoan arts, including canoe and house building, siapo (tapa), weaving, tattooing, oratory, adornment, all forms of performance art, the visual arts, and literature. An important feature of the book is profiles of living practitioners, both from Samoa and the large Samoan communities in other Pacific countries."--BOOK JACKET.