The Hawaiian archipelago consists of more than a hunred islands in the Pacific Ocean that are far from any other land. Polynesians arrived there one to two thousand years ago, and in 1778 Captain James Cook and his crew became the first westerners to visit Hawaii (which they called the Sandwich Islands). The art created in these islands may be divided into three categories: I. Art existing prior to Cook’s arrival, II. Art produced by recently arrived westerners, and III. Art produced by Hawaiians incorporating western materials and ideas. Outstanding public collections of Hawaiian art may be found at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Bishop Museum (Honolulu), the Hawaii State Art Museum and the Georg-August University of Göttingen in Germany.