LE BAMBOU GRAVE KANAK
Marseille: 1993. 77 pages, 37 color and 48 b/w photographs, 1 map. Item #9281
Elaborately engraved 19th century and earlier bamboo objects are presented in this monograph, perhaps the first study to be devoted to these infrequently encountered Kanak artifacts. Flutes, weapons, staffs, posts, clubs, and other bamboo objects engraved with designs and scenes of rituals, battles, villages, boats, encounters with Europeans, festivals, and myths are illustrated. The text describing these Kanak bamboo objects is in French.
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