New Guinea Art Forms
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To explore New Guinea art forms merely as line and color, without reference to cultural and social norms out of which the art grew, would be a fool's errand, according to Thomas (9ff) because New Guinea artists not only express culture content but also appear to intend that their artworks help shape it. Similarly, Hatcher comments that "head-hunting and highly artistic ceremonies are clearly related in New Guinea; art does not function as a substitute for violence" (105; emphasis added). Thus decoration of skulls can be interpreted as effecting or expressing control. The iconography of wood shields and other wood carvings supplies
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