JOURNAL OF THE POLYNESIAN SOCIETY. Volume XX, Nos. 1,2,3,& 4
1911. 226 pages. Each of the four Numbers is bound in original wrappers (chipped, but reinforced and firm). More
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RESEARCH IN MELANESIA. Vols. 9/10, 1985 & 1986
Boroko: University of Papua New Guinea. 71, 46 pages. More
INDONESIAN PRIMITIVE ART. Indonesia, Malaysia, The Philippines--from the Collection of the Barbier-Muller Museum, Geneva
Dallas Museum of Art: 1984. 169 pages, 112 b/w and 14 color photographs, 2 maps. Fne condition. More
THE MAORI AS HE WAS. A Brief Account of Maori Life As it Was in Pre-European Days.
New Zealand Board of Science and Art, Manual No. 4, Dominion Museum. Wellington: 1924. xv, 280 pages, 130 photographs, almost entirely of artifacts. Cloth cover. More
THE HERVEY ISLANDS ADZES IN THE PEABODY MUSEUM OF SALEM
Salem: Peabody Museum, 1937. 16 pages of text plus 12 pages of photographs and drawings of adzes and their design elements. Fine-excellent condition. More
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BATIK DESIGNS
East Brunswick: 1982. 632 pages, 550 b/w and 50 color photographs and reproductions of batik designs made from tjaps (printing blocks). Cloth cover. This study, the first to be published on Indonesian batik designs made from tjaps (printing blocks), fills a very apparent void, and should remain a perennial resource..... More
SAVAGE PAPUA. A Missionary among Canibals
New York: 1954 (previously published in a French edition and in an edition in England under the title Mitsinari). 256 pages of text plus 12 unnumbered pages of photographs taken in the 1930s and 1940s, maps on endpapers. Cloth cover. More
ART AND IDENTITY IN OCEANIA
Honolulu: 1990. viii, 315 pages, 20 color and 263 b/w photographs, 12 drawings, 3 figures, 12 maps. Cloth cover. Of the more than forty papers presented in 1984 at the Third International Symposium on the Art of Oceania, sponsored by the Pacific Arts Association, nineteen went through the process of..... More
COUNTERPOINT IN MAORI CULTURE
London: 1983. xi, 232 pages, 25 illustrations. Cloth cover. More
THE FOLK CLOTHING IN EARLY TAIWAN, 1796-1932
Taipei: National Museum of History, 1995. 16 (unpaginated), 160 pages, large color photographs of 186 articles of clothing. Text in Chinese and English. Cloth cover, with dust jacket. Mint condition. More
COURT ARTS OF INDONESIA
New York: Asia Society Galleries, 1990. 288 pages, 157 color photographs--many full-page and double-page, 71 b/w photographs, 5 drawings--all photographs and drawings of the arts of the royal court, dating back to the 8th and 9th centuries, and including jewelry, masks, sculptures, sacred weapons, carvings, musical instrucments, royal textiles, manuscripts..... More
CARVED AND PAINTED DESIGNS FROM NEW GUINEA; Field Museum, Anthropology Design Series No. 5.
Chicago: 1931. 58 pages, 44 pages of photographs of hundreds of carved artifacts, 8 pages of rubbings of the designs on bark belts. More
CULTURE OF CLOTHING AMONG TAIWAN ABORIGINES. Tradition. Meaning. Images
434 pages (text in Chinese, captions in English and Chinese, introduction in English). 461 color photographs, 225 b/w (almost all archival) photographs,1 fold-out color map. Cloth cover, in a slipcase. Taipei, 1998. The first, full-scale study to cover the culture of traditional clothing and ornaments of all the Taiwan aboriginal..... More
DAS GESCHLECHTSLEBEN DER WILDEN IN NORDWEST-MELANESIEN. Liebe/ehe und Familienleben bei Deneingeborenender Trobriand-Inseln/Britisch-Neu-Guinea
Leipzig & Zurich: 1931 (?). xix, 442 pages of text containing 4 figures and 1 map, plus 47 unnumbered pages of photographs. Cloth cover. More
IN THE AUSTRALIAN BUSH AND ON THE COAST OF THE CORAL SEA. Being the Experiences and Observations of a Naturalist in Australia, New Guinea and the Moluccas
London: 1899. viii, 552 pages, stain on the upper right hand corner of most pages, 84 illustrations. Cloth cover. More
ART OF THE ARCHAIC INDONESIANS
Geneva: Musee Rath, 1981. 150 pages, 119 b/w and 6 color photographs, 35 drawings. More
DE WAPENS VAN INDIE.
Leiden: 1996. 117 pages, photographs and drawings of approximately 350 weapons, weapon handles and shields, 7 maps, 2 fold-out charts. This survey book is arranged in an encyclopedic manner in which Indonesian weapons, and weapon handles, shields and armor are described in an alphabetical order (in the Dutch text). The..... More
SIX YEARS IN THE MALAY JUNGLE.
London: 1925. xiii, 261 pages of text containing 1 map, plus 16 leaves of photographs. Cloth cover. More
CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY. An Introduction to Its Aesthetic and Technique
xvi, 230 pages, 155 figures. Cloth cover. London, 1938; 1954, 1955 (2nd ed. with new preface). More
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