Bill Viola (b. 1951) is a pioneer in developing video as a major art medium. For more than forty years, he has made work that addresses life, death, and the intervening journey and is rooted in both Eastern and Western art and spiritual traditions, including Zen Buddhism, Islamic Sufism, and Christian mysticism.

This sizable barkcloth was probably hung over a rope or beam to serve as a room divider in a large house.

Tabua buli are carved and polished into crescentic shapes.

A heavy residue of yaqona in the interior of the dish remains from many years of use.

This is the earliest known portable temple, a unique example with a double roof and small white shells resembling the larger egg cowrie shells, Ovula ovum, that decorated full-size temples.