The finely carved wooden bowl is shaped like a bird and was used as a container for sweet drink. Inlaid bird bowl, from Belau by The British Museum
No one knows exactly how the people of Nan Madol created this royal capital made of giant stones. Nan Madol: “In the space between things” by Dr. Billie Lythberg
Masks are rare in Micronesia—traditionally they are only found in the Mortlock group of islands Painted mask (tapuanu), Caroline Islands by The British Museum
Making do with local materials, the I-Kiribati tailored armor from coconut fiber and wore porcupine-fish helmets. Kiribati armor by Dr. Ali Clark
Master sailors fashioned these maps from sticks and cowrie shells, registering relationships between land and sea. Navigation Chart, Marshall Islands by Dr. Jenny Newell and Dr. Steven Zucker
The first Europeans to collect these sculptures judged them coarse and clumsy, but Giacometti and Moore disagreed. Wooden sculptures from Nukuoro by Dr. Fanny Wonu Veys