Adorning the World: Art of the Marquesas Islands

THROUGH JANUARY 15, 2006, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is featuring a special exhibition of Marquesan art, Adorning the World: Art of the Marquesas Islands, which is drawn from the Met's collection and fifteen lenders. In his "Statement from the Marquesan People," in the catalog accompanying the exhibition, Toti Te'ikiehu 'upoko celebrates the fact that a larger public will be introduced to the artistic achievements of generations of Marquesan cultural masters.