Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Styles and Periods Facet
3. Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)
4. [styles, periods, and cultures by region]
5. Oceanic
6. Melanesian

Narrower term/s

• Santa Cruz Islands
• Bougainville
• Buka (culture or style)
• New Georgia Island
• San Cristobal
• Choiseul (culture or style)
• Tikopia
• Malaita (culture or style)

Anotations

Scope note:

Describes the culture and style of the inhabitants of the Solomon Islands. Eastern Solomon Islands primarily carved wooden artefacts and personal ornaments. Habitants of the Solomon Islands are known for their distictive decorative canoes. The people of the eastern Solomon Islands decorated their canoes with images of birds, fish, and other creatures, while the habitants of the western Solomon Islands utilized canoe carving, geometric pieces of seashells, and black paint as ornamentation.