Painting of a Polynesian man, Charles Pickering

The Culture of Some Objects in the Peabody Museum/Marshall Sahlins

Charles Pickering
Painting of a Polynesian Man

The 3rd George Peabody Founder's Lecture was given by Marshall Sahlins, Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago. He discussed Fijian objects in the Peabody collection.

Thursday evening, May 7, 1998, 8:00

Harvard-Yenching Institute
2 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA

Below and to the left are several of the objects that Professor Sahlins spoke about. Click on an image for more information.

Fijian club

Fijian kava bowl

Fijian club

 

 

 

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