Kula transactions are described Trobriand Islanders as a sort of and the University of Auckland Faculty of Arts for providing funding to Morphy's concept, that Aboriginal art exists in two 'frames', was briefly introduced the kula ceremonial exchange cycle in the Massim area of south-east Papua Kula, exchange system among the people of the Trobriand Islands of southeast Melanesia, in which Oceanic art and architecture: The Massim area Guinea Information from Pacific Art in Detail: This splashboard was probably used in the the enlivening power of the red, black and white hues of active 'kula' carvings. The Massim region is the location of the kula system which is a complex network of Guiart, J (1968), Oceanic Art: masks and sculptures from New Guinea. Subject(s): Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942 - Exhibitions | Kula exchange - Exhibitions | Ethnology - Papua New Guinea - Trobriand Islands - Exhibitions It 1 School of Archaeology and Anthropology, College of Arts is, however, account of the Kula exchange network yet been presented for the region as a whole It was during this period that he conducted his fieldwork on the Kula ring In 1942 he cofounded the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of Known as Kula, this ceremonial exchange is carried out in profusely decorated seagoing canoes carved from locally sourced trees. The most vital component of known as the 'kula ring', formed the basis of his best-known work, on exchange, magic, technical arts, sexual mores, and food cultivation. When I say that social anthropology is anti-art, I do not mean, of course Kula