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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taupou, post: 2774793, member: 45&quot;]Age and provenance certainly account for differences in the monetary value on the retail market.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, for collectors who could never afford the price to acquire something in that category, more recent &quot;copies,&quot; if they are &quot;authentic&quot; in every other way, (that is as part of a continuing carving tradition in that culture), offer a reasonable alternative.&nbsp; There are legitimate arguments on both sides, in a debate that has gone on for centuries.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a good website about the Nukuoro carvings: </p><p><a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/pacific-apah/micronesia-apah/a/nukuoro-micronesia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/pacific-apah/micronesia-apah/a/nukuoro-micronesia" rel="nofollow">https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/pacific-apah/micronesia-apah/a/nukuoro-micronesia</a></p><p><br /></p><p>They are also discussed, and one illustrated, on pages 592-593 in <u>Oceanic Art</u> by Anthony JP Meyers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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