Signs & Symbols - line art Pacific Canada From a Haida carving of a whale. The Haida are one of the aboriginal tribes of the Pacific North West and today inhabit an area to the North and West of Vancouver, Canada, especially the Queen Charlotte Islands.

Signs & Symbols - line art Pacific Canada Haida tattoo of a raven. The Haida are one of the aboriginal tribes of the Pacific North West and today inhabit an area to the North and West of Vancouver, Canada, especially the Queen Charlotte Islands. Their c

Signs & Symbols - line art Pacific Canada Haida design for a dish containing a representation of a shark. The Haida are one of the aboriginal tribes of the Pacific North West and today inhabit an area to the North and West of Vancouver, Canada, especi

Signs & Symbols - line art Pacific Drawing of a fish from New Ireland. New Ireland is an island in the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea.

Signs & Symbols - line art Pacific The revealed ribs of this figure indicate that it is the image of a dead ancestor. New Hebrides. The New Hebrides (now called Vanuatu) were named after the Hebridean islands off the west coast of Scotland.

Signs & Symbols - line art The Pacific - Marquesas Islands Engraved marking on a Marquesas bowl. These islands lie 740 miles northeast of Tahiti. The French artist Paul Gaugin (whose most celebrated works depicted the inhabitants of these islands), is b

Signs & Symbols - line art The Pacific Head motif from Easter Island. Easter Island (Rapa Nui) lies 2, 200 miles west of the Chilean coast. It is most famous for the mysterious humanoid monoliths (weighing up to 50 tons at 40 feet high), which the most r

Signs & Symbols - line art The Pacific Silhouette engraved on a Fijian war club. Fiji is part of the Melanesian island group, approximately 1300 miles north of New Zealand. The first European to visit the islands was the Dutch navigator Abel Tasman (for

Signs & Symbols - line art The Pacific Silhouette engraved on a Fijian war club. Fiji is part of the Melanesian island group, approximately 1300 miles north of New Zealand. The first European to visit the islands was the Dutch navigator Abel Tasman (for

Signs & Symbols - line art The Pacific Silhouette engraved on a Fijian war club. Fiji is part of the Melanesian island group, approximately 1300 miles north of New Zealand. The first European to visit the islands was the Dutch navigator Abel Tasman (for

Signs & Symbols - line art Arctic In legend, this spirit was drawn by an Inuit after meeting it. It is a spirit of comfort but has such a disturbing appearance that the human that it visited ran away in fear.

Signs & Symbols - line art The Pacific Painted wood panels from Banks Island. The faces and the birds represent the spirits of ancestors. The Banks Islands are part of Vanuatu. They were first explored by Captain William Bligh of "Bounty" fame, in 179

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