Varilaku: Pacific arts from the Solomon Islands

Varilaku: Pacific arts from the Solomon Islands brings together the finest traditional Solomon Islands arts from Australia’s museums and galleries for the first time. Through over 60 works, this book explores traditional beliefs in ancestral ghosts, the world of spirit beings, ocean-bound raiding expeditions and the indigenous aesthetics of the self—the use of adornments to express identity and status from the mid 19th century to the mid 20th century.