Solomon Island

Describes the various types of artwork created by 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.