Search the Collection

One-word searches work best.
Use AND to require multiple terms:

  • ceramics AND vase
 More
Close Overlay

Keyword Search Information

For best results, use one word:

  • Yoruba
  • Baroque
  • Rembrandt

Use AND for combinations:

  • American AND ceramics AND vase
  • Birch AND bark AND container
  • Picasso AND photograph

Use quotes for phrases and full names:

  • "Bark Painting"
  • "English Sheraton Barometer"
  • "Tuning Fork Mallet"

If your search includes 3 or more words, you may use a mix of quotes and AND:

  • "birch bark" AND container

A World of Relations

January 26 – December 8, 2019

Share

  • A World of Relations installed in the Hood Museum's William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries. Photo by Jeffrey Nintzel.

    A World of Relations installed in the Hood Museum's William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries. Photo by Jeffrey Nintzel.

  • A World of Relations

    A World of Relations installed in the Hood Museum's William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries. Photo by Jeffrey Nintzel.

  • Elizabeth Nyumi Nungurrayi, Parwalla, 2000, acrylic on canvas. Gift of Will Owen and Harvey Wagner; 2009.92.81. © Copyright Agency. Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2019.

    Elizabeth Nyumi Nungurrayi, Parwalla, 2000, acrylic on canvas. Gift of Will Owen and Harvey Wagner; 2009.92.81. © Copyright Agency. Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2019.

About

This selection of works from the Hood's Owen and Wagner Collection of Aboriginal Australian Art explores a series of relationships between spouses, siblings, parents, and children, as well as those bonded by shared lands or experiences. Family ties run deep in Indigenous Australian art. And yet, for Indigenous Australians, the concept of kinship is more than simply genetic: it is the basis for a complex cosmology that unites all things in the universe.

Exhibition Curator

Henry Skerritt

Exhibition subject: Oceania