{"pk":57970,"title":"Shell Rings of Power: Gender Relations in Material Culture Production on the Aitape  Islands, Papua New Guinea","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This article first introduces shell ornaments and pottery on the Aitape Islands in New Guinea, discussing the role of women in their production during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It then turns to material culture produced by men—cult houses and canoes—that depended on supplies obtained by trading women’s products like shell valuables. By discussing these two gendered art forms together, this article shows how integral women’s labour was to the larger social and economic structures in New Guinea that have predominantly been associated with men. It concludes by discussing how colonisation, missionisation, and the introduction of a monetary economy impacted the gendered relations of art production in the islands.","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":"Aitape Islands, Papua New Guinea, women’s labour, women’s labor, shell ornaments, canoes, religious art"}],"section":"Special Section: “Gendered Objects in Oceania,” Part 2","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6172k5f8","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Maria","middle_name":"","last_name":"Wronska-Friend","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2024-01-21T14:27:12Z","date_accepted":"2024-01-21T14:27:12Z","date_published":"2023-01-01T00:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/pacificarts/article/57970/galley/44146/download/"}]}