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Exhibitions

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  • People & Stuff: A Subversive Collaboration
  • Enotie Ogbebor: From Eden to Ecocide: A Tale of Human Impact
  • Contemporary Gweagal spears by Rod Mason
  • Pacific Currents: New Displays from Oceania in the World Anthropology Gallery

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Anthropology

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The Northcote W. Thomas Project

  • The Northcote W. Thomas Project overview
  • Hair Combs
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  • Hair ornaments
  • Masks & Masquerade
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  • Textiles and Textile Production
  • Bottle stoppers
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  • Charms, Shrine and Medicine
  • Figures
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Chiefs and Governors: Art and Power in Fiji

  • Chiefs and Governors: Art and Power in Fiji overview
  • Art and Power in Fiji
  • Sea of Islands
  • Masi
  • Viti
  • Solevu
  • Yaqona
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  • Baron von Hügel
  • Levuka
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  • Von Hügel & MAA
  • G.K. Roth
  • New Discoveries

Photography

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ARU x MAA | BA Photography Showcase

  • ARU x MAA | BA Photography Showcase overview
  • ARU BA Photography | Alexander Tiffin
  • ARU BA Photography | Becky Howard
  • ARU BA Photography | Brooke Tasker
  • ARU BA Photography | Cameron Licence
  • ARU BA Photography | Connor Tungate
  • ARU BA Photography | Eden Brook
  • ARU BA Photography | Emma Kingsley
  • ARU BA Photography | Kai Hocknell
  • ARU BA Photography | Martina Sanzeri
  • ARU BA Photography | Rhianna Hill
  • ARU BA Photography | Tyler Brinkworth
  • ARU x MAA | Aleksandra Parzych

Modern and contemporary art

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  • Courtyard Sculpture - Displaced Mihi

Research

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MAA Research Projects

  • MAA Research Projects overview
  • What's the Point? Documenting and recontextualising Pacific arrows
  • From the Caribbean to Cambridge: Reimagining Pre-Columbian Archaeology Collections Together
  • Whispers of Caribbean Isles: Inclusive Narratives for pre-Columbian Archaeology Collections
  • Museum Affordances
  • Taking Care
  • Digital Museum of Global Chinese Kun Opera
  • Digital Museum of Global Buddhist Cultural Heritage
  • Heritage Matters: Culture and Development in the Pacific
  • Cambridge Rivers Project
  • Pacific Presences
  • Multiple Modernisms: Twentieth-Century Artistic Modernisms in Global Perspective
  • Collaborative Work with Torres Strait Islanders
  • Fijian Art Research and Websites

Schools

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  • Key Stage 1
  • Key Stage 2
  • Key Stage 3
  • Key Stage 4
  • Key Stage 5

Resources

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African Collections

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  • Boer
  • How we talk about people
  • Kingdom of Benin
  • Kingdoms of Oyo and Dahomey
  • Museum Ethics

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Cambridge students

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