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. Australian

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Styles and Periods Facet
3. Styles and Periods
4. styles, periods, and cultures by region
5. Oceanic
6. Melanesian
7. Papua New Guinean

Narrower term/s

• Meriam

Anotations

Scope note:

Broad term used to describe the styles and cultures of the Melanesian people located on the several hundred islands between Cape York in Queensland, Australia, and the southwest coast of Papua New Guinea. They are ethnically distinct from 'Australian Aboriginal' people, though they are grouped together with Australian Aboriginal peoples under the general term 'Indigenous Australian.'