{"pk":57904,"title":"Canoe Carvings from Western Solomon Islands: The Operative Efficacy of Simultaneous Visual Presences","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This article considers a group of late nineteenth-century canoe carvings from Western Solomon Islands. They are so stylistically similar that they could have been carved by the same person, although that information is now lost. Functionally, the carvings’ imagery points to cultural parallels in a manner that gives them an operative efficacy, not just to the canoes to which they were lashed, but also to the vessels’ occupants and owners. This connectivity would have prevailed, not only during a war expedition when the canoes were in use, but before and after, when the carvings were put on and taken off the canoes. The carvings were likely stored in the houses of the canoe owners or in mortuary shrines, establishing a spatial-social cyclicity.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC-ND 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"Solomon Islands, canoe carvings, operative efficacy"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/89s702ss","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Deborah","middle_name":"","last_name":"Waite","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2021-10-17T17:00:44Z","date_accepted":"2021-10-17T17:00:44Z","date_published":"2021-10-18T07:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/pacificarts/article/57904/galley/44080/download/"}]}