Word: maori
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accomplished most after he had broken with his family, settled in. the South Seas. Using only the most primitive materials-"any wood I can get hold of," he wrote, "and no press"-he turned out woodcuts that sometimes seem more primitive than the work of natives, studies based on Maori religious psychology, in which the design is clenched around a terrified figure as tightly as a closed fist. He varied work of this character, sultry and mysterious, with woodcuts in which gentler island gods, and relaxed natives are integral to the repose in his designs...
...takes up with a rival tribal chief's son. Her camera-conscious father shakes his battle-ax, the black warriors jump into their canoes and there is the customary stone and mud-pie fight around the village walls. "Hei Tiki" is the love charm which girls of the Maori tribe wear around their necks. Worst shot: a group of natives with their backs to the camera yammering around a pile of holy sticks...
...this exhibition certain pieces, such as the Maori ancestor god or the New Ireland cult mask, bear a definite relation to the ethnic type, yet are far removed from realistic sculpture as we understand it. Others, such as the Congo chief's stool or the Congo woman holding a bowl, bear an even remoter resemblance, though dynamic and significant works...
...humanity, received thousands of suggestions, gave the prize to a Columbia University psychology professor who had proposed a C. Harold Smith Institute of Mental Hygiene. But he never said whether he would carry out the plan. Born in London, he emigrated to New Zealand, fell in love with a Maori maiden, narrowly escaped torture and death at the hands of her tribe, went to the U. S., made a fortune, lived to despise...