When:
February 20, 2010, 10:00 am

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Where:
Bowers Museum
2002 North Main
Santa Ana, CA   92706

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Who:
No Performers Specified

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More Information:
Spirits and Headhunters: Art of the Pacific is a spectacular and culturally-significant exhibition from the South Pacific features 200 objects. Spanning the geographic region collectively referred to as Oceania, this comprehensive exhibition highlights masterworks from the three cultural regions of Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia. Particular focus is placed on New Guinea, land of the headhunter, and the rich artistic traditions infused into daily and ritual life. Museum goers will enter into a visually stunning world and come face to face with larger than life masks, finely crafted feast bowls, objects associated with the secretive Sepik River men’s house, beautiful shell and feather currency, magic figures and tools of the shaman, gorgeous personal adornments, weapons of warfare and the most precious of human trophies taken in retribution and in reverence.