RESEARCH IN MELANESIA. Vol. 14, 1990
Boroko: University of Papua New Guinea. vi, 75 pages. More
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RESEARCH IN MELANESIA. Vols. 11/12, 1987 & 1988
Boroko: University of Papua New Guinea. iii, 72 pages. More
AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL PAINTINGS IN WESTERN AND CENTRAL ARNHEM LAND. Temporal Sequences and Elements of Style in Cadell River and Deaf Adder Creek Art
Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies: 1982. 214 pages, 248 drawings plus 54 full-page photographs of Arnhem Land rock paintings. Cloth cover, folio size (9"x14"). More
TAONGA MAORI. Treasures of the New Zealand People.
Sydney: 1989. 100 pages, 67 color and 163 b/w photographs. More
THE ELOQUENT DEAD. Ancestral Sculpture of Indonesia and Southeast Asia
Los Angeles: 1985. 204 pages, 262 b/w and 22 color photographs, 8 drawings, 1 map. Soft cover, very good-fine condition. Elaborate, frighteningly beautiful ritual art objects relating to the dead in the cultures of Indonesia and Southeast Asia were exhibited in 1985 at the Museum of Cultural History. The more..... More
THE PAPUAS OF WAROPEN
Koninklijk Institut, The Hague: 1957. xv, 384 pages, 77 photographs, 32 drawings, 2 fold-out maps. Cloth cover. Initially published in Dutch in 1947, this English translation of a work that was the result of long field-work by an expert observer was greeted with great pleasure by those scholars unable to..... More
ARTIFICIAL CURIOSITIES. Being an Exposition of Native Manufactures Collected on the Three Pacific Voyages of Captain James Cook, R.N
Honolulu: 1978. 308 pages, 401 b/w and 225 color photographs. In 1978 the Bishop Museum commemorated Captain Cook's discovery of the Hawaiian Islands with "an exposition of native manufactures" collected on Cook's Pacific voyages. This publication presents the objects collected by Cook that were exhibited at the Museum. A truly..... More
PATTERNS OF PARADISE.
Chicago: 1980. 72 pages, 53 color photographs, 55 b/w photographs and drawings. This catalogue accompanied a major exhibition at the Field Museum, and surveyed the full range of tapa design in large, exquisite color photographs, as well as black and white photographs and drawings. The diverse use of tapa and..... More
KINSHIP IN THE ADMIRALTY ISLANDS
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, Anthropological Papers, Vol. XXXIV, Part II: 1934. Pp. 181-358, 17 figures. More
NAGA CULTURAL ATTIRES AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.
New Delhi: 1999. 132 pages, 20 pages of color photographs, and 1 page of b/w photographs. Cloth cover. This work presents Naga material culture used in festival, ritual, head hunting practices, and in song and dance. Clothing, ornamentation, weapons and musical instruments are extensively illustrated and documented. More
DREISSIG JAHRE IN DER SUDSEE. Land und Leute, Sitten und Gebrauche in Bismarckarchipel und auf den Deutchschen Salomoinseln
Stuttgart: Strecker und Schrader, 1926. xxii, 876pages; 56 full-page photographs, 1441 smaller photographs and drawings (illustrations of hundreds of artifacts from the Bismarck Archipelago and the Solomon Islands), 4 double-page maps. Cloth cover, illustration inserted on front cover. Good condition. More
KAPAUKU PAPUANS AND THEIR LAW
Yale Univ. Pubs. in Anthro., No. 54: 1958. 296 pages of text containing 9 figures and 3 tables, plus 8 pages of photographs. Original wrappers. More
NIEUW-GUINEESCHE OERKUNST
Deventer: 1944. 47 pages of text containing 9 figures and 1 map, plus 31 pages of photographs of artifacts and rock art. Hard board cover. More
EINE FORSCHUNG-REISE IM BISMARCK ARCHIPEL.
Hamburg: L.Friederischsen & Co., 1911. xvi, 307 pages, numerous b/w and color (tipped-in) drawings of artifacts, design elements, structures and indigenous peoples, loose folding map in rear pocket. 3/4 decorated cloth cover, leather spine, slightly worn at joints. Very tight copy, overall very good-fine condition. Hanson 4706, "...a research trip..... More
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