Islands Art In British
p. 35 · Read in the full issue
Exhibition
AN exhibition of traditional colonial art has been made in the Imperial Institute, South Kensington, London, during the Festival of Britain.
It is in two sections —sculpture, and such crafts as pottery, basket making, textiles. The exhibits have been loaned by colonial institutions all over the British Empire, and in clude specimens from the Pacific Islands. There are fine examples of the representational sculpture of the Santa Cruz Islands, New Hebrides, Fiji and Tonga.
Says the Colonial Review: “The frigate bird, one of the dominant
art motives of the Pacific, appears in the black wooden food bowls, inlaid with pearl shell, from the Solomons. Another exhibit from the Solomon Islands is a houseboat, about 15 ft. long, decorated with frigate birds.”
A touch-down in Norfolk Island was made the other day by one of General Claire Chennault’s Civil Aviation Line planes, en route from New Zealand to Formosa. Some of these cargo planes assisted in the North Is.-South Is. airlift during the big strike in New Zealand. Al though the company took its own mechanics to NZ, it finds it cheaper to send its planes to China for over haul!