The following is a list of all known exhibitions in The Metropolitan Museum of Art that prominently feature works from Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. Click on the 
to find the publication in WATSONLINE.
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1930s
Loan Exhibition of Mexican Arts (October 14 - November 9, 1930) (Article from Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin in JSTOR)
Gallery D 6
1950s — 1960s
Masterpieces of Precolumbian Gold (March 3 - April 11, 1954)
[Location?]
Ancient Peruvian Ceramics: The Nathan Cummings Collection (September 16, 1964 - January 24, 1965)
Gallery adjacent to auditorium lounge
Maya Art from Guatemala (October 5, 1968 - January 19, 1969)
Velez Blanco Patio
Art of Oceania, Africa and the Americas from the Museum of Primitive Art (May 10 - August 17, 1969)
Special Exhibition Galleries
1970s
Before Cortés: Sculpture of Middle America (September 30, 1970 - January 3, 1971)
Harry Payne Bingham Gallery
The Sculpture of Black Africa: Nigeria and Cameroon (June 8 - December 31, 1971) (Brochure)
New Gallery for Primitive Art, Main floor opposite the restaurant
Sculpture of Oceania (April 4 - September 5, 1972) (Published subsequently)
New Gallery for Primitive Art, Main floor opposite the restaurant
Masterworks from the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation (October 18 - December 31, 1973)
Special Exhibition Galleries, 2nd floor
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1980-1985
The Buli Master (February 13 - July 13, 1980)
Sackler Gallery
Treasures of Ancient Nigeria (August 14 - October 12, 1980)
Special Exhibition Galleries, 2nd floor
For Spirits and Kings — African Art from the Paul and Ruth Tishman Collection (June 3 - September 6, 1981)
Sackler Wing, 2nd floor
Color and Shape in American Indian Art (March 25 – September 4, 1983)
AAOA Special Exhibition Gallery
Desert Valley: Early Work from Ica, Peru (September 27, 1983 – February 5, 1984)
AAOA Special Exhibition Gallery
Symbol and Substance in American Indian Art (February 28 – May 27, 1984)
AAOA Special Exhibition Gallery
Schoolcraft (April 4 - July 1984)
Rockefeller Mezzanine
African Ivories (June 26 – December 30, 1984)
AAOA Special Exhibition Gallery
Te Maori: Maori Art from New Zealand Collections (September 11, 1984 - January 6, 1985)
Sackler Gallery
Micronesia (January 21 – May 5, 1985)
AAOA Special Exhibition Gallery
The Art of Precolumbian Gold — The Jan Mitchell Collection (May 9 - August 11, 1985)
Harry Payne Bingham Gallery
Taino: The Art of the Dominican Republic (June 3 – October 15, 1985)
AAOA Special Exhibition Gallery
Asmat Images. Drawings by Tobias Schneebaum (June 11 - September 1985)
Rockefeller Mezzanine
Mimbres Painted Pottery: Ancient Art of the American Southwest (November 19, 1985 – February 2, 1986)
AAOA Special Exhibition Gallery
Frank Hurley in New Guinea (December 10, 1985 - June 30, 1986)
Rockefeller Mezzanine
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1986-1990
Recent Acquisitions (April 2 – July 17, 1986)
AAOA Special Exhibition Gallery
Bamana: Sculpture from West Africa (August 19, 1986 – March 1, 1987)
AAOA Special Exhibition Gallery
The Photographs of Paul Gebauer (September 15, 1986 - January 30, 1987)
Rockefeller Mezzanine
Tapa (March 3 - June 30, 1987)
Rockefeller Mezzanine
Houses for the Hereafter: Funerary Temples from Guerrero, Mexico (April 28, 1987 – September 4, 1988)
AAOA Special Exhibition Gallery
The Florentine Codex (Sept. 29, 1987 - Jan. 15, 1988)
Rockefeller Mezzanine
The Art of the Dogon — Selections from the Lester Wunderman Collection (February 10 - July 10, 1988)
Robert Wood Johnson Gallery for Recent Acquisitions
Walker Evans: A Portfolio of African Art (February 9 - July 1, 1988)
Rockefeller Mezzanine
Forest and Village: Art from Liberia and Ivory Coast (October 18, 1988 – January 1, 1989) (Checklist)
AAOA Special Exhibition Gallery
Altered Exposures: Photographs of the Maori of New Zealand (September 27, 1988 - March 3, 1989) (Brochure) (Checklist)
Rockefeller Mezzanine
Early Indonesian Textiles from Three Island Cultures (February 14 – May 14, 1989)
AAOA Special Exhibition Gallery
Southeast Asian Tribal Art: The Fred and Rita Richman Collection (June 13 – September 10, 1989)
AAOA Special Exhibition Gallery
Islands and Ancestors: Indigenous Styles of Southeast Asia (September 8, 1988 - January 10, 1994)
Rockefeller-Wallace Spine Wing
The Crane Pacific Expedition 1928-1929: The Sepik River Photographs (October 17, 1989 - April 23, 1990)
Rockefeller Mezzanine
Gold of Africa: The Barbier-Mueller Collection (October 20, 1989 – March 11, 1990)
AAOA Special Exhibition Gallery
Andean Four-Cornered Hats (April 6, 1990 - January 6, 1991)
AAOA Peruvian Gallery
Art of Central Africa: Masterpieces from the Berlin Museum für Völkerkunde (June 6 – November 4, 1990)
AAOA Special Exhibition Gallery
Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries (October 10, 1990 - January 13, 1991)
Tisch Galleries and Great Hall
New Guinea Bone Carvings (November 30, 1990 – March 20, 1991)
AAOA Special Exhibition Gallery
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1991-1995
Picturing Africa: Photographs of the Zulu, 1890-1900 (September 3, 1991 - March 20, 1992) (Brochure)
Rockefeller Mezzanine
Royal Art of Benin from the Perls Collection: Treasures from the African Kingdom (January 16 – September 13, 1992)
AAOA Special Exhibition Gallery
Loma Negra, A Peruvian Lord’s Tomb (October 12, 1992 – July 4, 1993) (Brochure)
AAOA Special Exhibition Gallery
Diamond Jenness in the Pacific Islands, 1911-1912 (November 12, 1992 - May 28, 1993) (Brochure)
Rockefeller Mezzanine
Canoes from Oceania. Selections from the Photograph Study Collection (July 27, 1993 - January 7, 1994)
Rockefeller Mezzanine
Elephant: The Animal and Its Ivory in African Art (October 13, 1993 – March 27, 1994)
AAOA Special Exhibition Gallery
The Hero Twins of Ancient Maya Myth: Rollout Photographs by Justin Kerr (February 4 - September 2, 1994) (Brochure)
Rockefeller Mezzanine
Divine Protection: Batak Art of North Sumatra (April 19 – December 31, 1994)
AAOA Special Exhibition Gallery
The Kilenge of New Britain: Photographs by Philip Fark, 1964-70 (January 10 - July 28, 1995)
Rockefeller Mezzanine
Ancient Peruvian Mantles, 300 B.C. – A.D. 200 (February 23 – August 13, 1995) (Brochure)
AAOA Special Exhibition Gallery
River of Gold: Precolumbian Treasure from Sitio Conte (September 19, 1995 – February 4, 1996)
AAOA Special Exhibition Gallery
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1996-2000
Picturing Paradise: Colonial Photography of Samoa, 1875-1925 (March 1 – August 4, 1996)
AAOA Special Exhibition Gallery
Enduring Rhythms: African Musical Instruments and the Americas (October 3, 1996 – August 3, 1997)
AAOA Special Exhibition Gallery
An Architect at Home: Sculpture from the Nina and Gordon Bunschaft Collection (October 1, 1996 - January 19, 1997)
[Location?]
Master Hand: Individuality and Creativity Among Yoruba Sculptures (September 11, 1997 – July 12, 1998) (Brochure)
AAOA Special Exhibition Gallery
Native Paths: American Indian Art From the Collection of Charles and Valerie Diker (May 7, 1998 - January 2, 2000)
Rockefeller-Wallace Spine Gallery
Jade in Ancient Costa Rica (September 16, 1998 – March 9, 1999)
AAOA Special Exhibition Gallery
Guardians of the Long House: Art in Borneo (April 13, 1999 – January 16, 2000) (Brochure)
AAOA Special Exhibition Gallery
Kuba Textiles (Aug. 1999 - Jan. 2000)
Ratti Textile Center
Perfect Documents: Walker Evans and African Art (February 1 – September 3, 2000)
AAOA Special Exhibition Gallery
Art and Oracle: Spirit Voices of Africa (April 25 - July 30, 2000)
[Location?]
Rain of the Moon: Silver in Ancient Peru (November 3, 2000 – April 22, 2001)
AAOA Special Exhibition Gallery
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2001-2005
Recent Acquisitions (May 22 – October 28, 2001)
AAOA Special Exhibition Gallery
Lester Wunderman's Photographs of Mali (October 9, 2001 - April 26, 2002)
Rockefeller Mezzanine
Splendid Isolation: Art of Easter Island (December 11, 2001 – September 8, 2002)
AAOA Special Exhibition Gallery
Genesis: Ideas of Origin in African Sculpture (November 19, 2002 – July 6, 2003)
AAOA Special Exhibition Gallery
Photographs of New Guinea by Paul Wirz (1982-1955) (February 18 - June 28, 2003) (Brochure)
Rockefeller Mezzanine
The Responsive Eye: Ralph T. Coe and the Collecting of American Indian Art (September 9 - December 14, 2003)
Service Bulding B
Echoing Images: Couples in African Sculpture (February 10 – September 5, 2004)
AAOA Special Exhibition Gallery
Heritage of Power: Ancient Sculpture from West Mexico: The Andrall E. Pearson Family Collection (October 19, 2004 – April 3, 2005)
AAOA Special Exhibition Gallery
Adorning the World: Art of the Marquesas Islands (May 9, 2005 – January 15, 2006)
AAOA Special Exhibition Gallery
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2006 —
The Fabric of Life: Ikat Textiles of Indonesia (February 28 – September 24, 2006)
AAOA Special Exhibition Gallery
Treasures of Sacred Maya Kings (June 13 - September 10, 2006)
Cantor Galleries
Eternal Ancestors: The Art of the Central African Reliquary (October 2, 2007 - March 2, 2008)
Service Building B
Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art of the Papuan Gulf (October 25, 2006 – December 2, 2007)
AAOA Special Exhibition Gallery
Radiance from the Rain Forest: Featherwork in Ancient Peru (February 26 – September 1, 2008)
AAOA Special Exhibition Gallery
The Essential Art of African Textile: Design Without End (September 30, 2008 – March 22, 2009)
AAOA Special Exhibition Gallery
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Forthcoming Exhibitions (tentative)
African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of Collecting (June 2 – September 27, 2009)
Other Exhibitions Featuring Objects from AAOA
The Year One: Art of the Ancient World East and West (October 3, 2000 – January 14, 2001)
Special Exhibition Galleries, First Floor
The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions (October 24, 2008 – February 1, 2009) (Online catalog)
Cantor Galleries
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