Bringing together individuals and institutions in an effort to document, raise education and awareness of indigenous cultures - their various art traditions and material culture throughout Insular Pacific|Southeast Asia, threatened by cultural extinction and globalization.
One needs to revel that these surviving culture of artists and craft specialists still are trying to make their wares. For in time as older artists pass - so does these traditions.
These great artifacts of technology, style and form will no longer be made. This lesson of history has been repeated worldwide, and continues with particular vividness in relation to the indigenous tribes of the Insular Pacific.
We realize the need for preservation and sustainability of an ancient heritage, the importance of education, exhibition and documentation – without which we have neither identity nor soul.
Through lectures, film & photo documentaries of our research expeditions, exhibitions and publications on material culture - we establish the urgency of these issues.
We invite scholars, artists, museum professionals, private collectors and other enthusiasts drawn to this field; as we continue to foster cooperative relationships with individuals, museum institutions and universities both locally and internationally.
Alongside we have slowly created sustainable livelihoods and healthy ecosystems, nurturing traditional and new generations of committed indigenous artists, crafts women and men as we continue to pursue other regional and global collaborations with other preservation and conservation programs.
We hope this website will give you a glimpse into what we do at Pacific Ethnographic and encourage you to get involved and join us.
Fides Enriquez & Ramon Silvestre, Ph.D.
Directors
Left Top Image Description: Previous Exhibit | Ritual Rythmn and Reason Exhibit Series I Announcement, early 20th Century Ifugao Food bowls, handcarved wood. Round food bowls Pacific Ethnographic Collection; Top Right, square food bowl photograph courtesy of the Armand Voltaire Cating Collection.
Right Image Description: Previous Exhibit | Ritual Rythmn and Reason Exhibit Series II Announcement, T'nalak Textile by the T'boli tribe, woven banana fiber ikat on a backstrap loom. In collaboration with The Fides Enriquez T'nalak Collection.