What is Oceanic Art? This is the Art of the Native peoples and inhabitants of Australia and South Pacific Area islands, those include New Guinea and New Zealand. Spread into a wide Geographical Area, Oceanic art is extremely colorific in style and technique. Artifacts are of an integral meaning and a part of their religious and social ceremonies of everyday island Life. Art objects include ancestors' figures, canoe-prow ornaments and decorations, ceremonial protection shields and masks, carvings made of stone, decorated real human skulls and bones, art pottery, and at last but not least stools. Fertility is a main topic, along with occasional returns to headhunting and Tribal Ritual Cannibalism. Oceanic Arts is considered primitive until recently the local cultures possessed no ores or metals to work with, that way cutting tools were made out of stone and shell. Oceanic Art is considered little known in historical references but a great example of prehistorical Oceanic art is found in Easter Islands with their enormous sculptures, huge and scarifying hand-carved figures of stone standing up to 18 meters or 60 ft tall, made by their ancestors.

Three main areas of Oceanic Art in Oceania can be specified: New Zealand, Easter Island, Melanesia (New Guinea & surroundings), Polynesia (triangle formed by Hawaiian Islands, ) and Micronesia (islands to the North of Melanesia).