#Oceanic hashtag - Bluesky

@coolsnowglobes.bsky.social

6 days ago

Did you know that sea turtles can't actually hide in their shells like land turtles can?
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#CoolSnowGlobes #Snowglobes #homedecor #giftideas #snowglobe #interiordesign #nostalgia #seaturtle #deepsea #turtle #savetheturtles #nature #oceanic #aquarium

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Patrick Kapty

@patrickkapty.bsky.social

1 week ago

Hei-tiki pendant
nephrite jade with red sealing wax
19th century CE
Maori culture
NewZealand

#handmade #maori #culture #carved #nephrite #jade #pounamu #newzealand #Aotearoa #landofthelongwhitecloud #indigenous #native #tribal #oceanic #art #oceanicart #maoriart #maoriculture #tribalart #heitiki

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Patrick Kapty

@patrickkapty.bsky.social

1 week ago

This Wapinyan ancestor figure (Ngwallndu) comes from the Wosera Abelam people residing in the East Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea. Integral to the fabric of the spiritual life of the Wosera Abelam people is the growing and exchanging of yams. Although the primary role of this object is to honor deceased ancestors, every object of artistic production, including this figure, would be displayed at the annual Yam Festival. Produced after a respected elder passes away, this figure would have been kept in the Spirit House (Haus Tambaran) in a prominent place. Small figures are also made to represent Wapinyan and have been variously identified as "long" yam children, yam spirit portraits, and as specifically named clan ancestors. These may be male or female and are found in Spirit Houses as well as ceremonial yam warehouses. At the beginning of the yam growing cycle, small seedlings are placed against them to encourage "long" yam cultivation, and female figures are said to specifically look after the development of their yam counterparts.

Male ancestor figure (Ngwallndu)
carved wood
19th century
Wosera Abelam people
East Sepik, Papua New Guinea

#handmade #carved #wood #ancestorfigure #ngwallndu #tribalart #oceanic #oceanicart #woseraabelam #eastsepik #papuanewguinea #ritualfigure #statue #culture #art #oceanicart #c1800s #religion

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Greta Uehling

@uehling.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

My photo essay on the Black Sea is out in paperback! It's in A Sea of Transience. Many thanks to Tamta Khalvahsi and Martin Demant Fredericksen for their suberb editorial leadership! #photoessay #blacksea #oceanic #transience www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Khalva...

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Patrick Kapty

@patrickkapty.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

The Elema people of the Papuan Gulf in southeast New Guinea formerly practiced an elaborate cycle of masked rituals. While some mask types were sacred, others, such as this eharo mask, were created primarily for amusement. To the Elema eharo were "maea morava eharu" ("things of gladness"), danced as a prelude to more sacred rituals. Eharo represent supernatural beings as well as humorous figures, such as lecherous old men. They were made and worn by young men from neighboring villages at the request of the village hosting the ceremony. As they entered the host village, the women pelted them with shredded coconut to neutralize their seductive powers. Now harmless, the eharo danced surrounded by large groups of women to the amusement of the assembled crowd.

photograph circa 1920s of Elema people dancers wearing Eharo mask during an entertainment prior to a religious ritual.

Mask (eharo)
barkcloth, cane, paint, fiber
Early 20th century
Elema people
Papua New Guinea, Orokolo village, Papuan Gulf

#dance #mask #eharo #elemapeople #papuanewguinea #ritual #amusement #entertainment #tribal #oceanic #oceanicart #tribalart #papuanart #handmade #art #orokolovillage #papuangulf

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iMARES_group

@imares-group.bsky.social

4 weeks ago

Funding and Projects involved:
@ges4seas-mooc.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
@marineplanebmsp.bsky.social
#ActNow
#OCEANIC (@cienciagob.bsky.social, @ageinves.bsky.social, Co-funded by European Union)
#MARVEL (@fbiodiversidad.bsky.social, #Pleamar, #FEMPA, @FondosUE_Esp, Co-funded by European Union)

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Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology

@sicb.bsky.social

1 month ago

Welcome new follower & past #SICB journals-
ICB author @cephagus.bsky.social 🙌

If you haven't read his co authored read,
don't miss it
Atlantic #Oceanic #Squids in the “Grey Speciation Zone”

Fernández-Álvarez , Sanchez ,Deville , Taite , Villanueva , A Louise Allcock

doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

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