OCEANIA: THE NATIVE CULTURES OF AUSTRALIA AND THE PACIFIC ISLANDS. (two volumes)
Honolulu: 1989. Vol. I: xii, 818 pages, 134 figures, 16 pages of photographs, 3 pages of maps. Vol. II: vi, Pp. 819-1275, 74 figures. Cloth cover. More
Honolulu: 1989. Vol. I: xii, 818 pages, 134 figures, 16 pages of photographs, 3 pages of maps. Vol. II: vi, Pp. 819-1275, 74 figures. Cloth cover. More
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
Museum fur Volkerkunde, Berlin: Wissenschaftszentrum, Bonn-Bad Godesberg, 1993. 207 pages, 39 color and 138 b/w photographs, 9 drawings, 4 maps. A very interesting and historically important exhibition was held in 1993 and 1994 at the Museum fur Volkerkunde, Berlin and the Wissenschaftszentrum in Bonn-Bad Godesberg, respectively. The cultural change of..... More
Emsdetten: 1955. vii, 188 pages, 4 pages of photographs of structures and objects, 1 fold-out map. More
New York: Harry Abrams, 1970. 406 pages, 50 hand-tipped color plates, 287 large b/w photographs, 6 maps. Cloth cover, dust jacket. Fine-mint condition. More
Berkeley: 1985. 96 pages, 78 b/w and 8 color photographs --all full or half-page, 2 maps. Cloth cover. Kula, the system of trade carried on by Trobriand Islanders, and the elaborate ceremonies surrounding it, was extensively studied by the renowned anthropologist, Bronislaw Malinowski. In honor of his centennary, the Lowie..... More
Lubeck: 1926. 440 pages, 189 photographs. Decorated linen cover. More
New Haven: 1985 (2nd ed.). xiii, 370 pages, 222 b/w photographs, 32 half-page, full-page, and double-page color photographs. Cloth cover. More
Stutgart: 1924. xii, 356 pages of text, plus 69 pages of photographs, 1 fold-out map. Cloth cover. More
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museums. Cologne: 1987. 389 pages, 46 full and half-page color and 465 b/w photographs of the artifacts in the world-famous Clausmeyer collection of Melanesian art, 27 drawings, 6 maps. Hard board cover. More
Museum Monographs--New Britain Studies. Philadelphia: University Museum, 1962. 94 pages, 9 pages of photographs, 21 tables, 3 maps. More
Polynesian Society, Wellington, 1951: Polynesian Society Memoir 24. xxix, 492 pages, 1 fold-out map, 1 photographs. Cloth cover, very good condition; with original dust jacket, chipped and one corner clipped. More
New York: 1995. 216 pages, 153 b/w and 26 color photographs, 3 maps. An overview of the art of Oceania, this volume packs a great deal of punch into its slightly more than 200 pages. Heavily illustrated with both field and studio photographs, this work forgoes the usual geographic/cultural area..... More
Stuttgart: Ferdinand Enke Verlag, 1937. vii, 201 pages of text, plus 16 pages of photographs--of indigenous people and structures. Yellow cloth cover (slightly soiled). Inscribed by author: "The Australian National Museum Council with thanks of the author. Berlin, 8.7.1937" More
New York: 1954. 128 pages, 96 full-page photographs of objects, principally in Swiss and German museums, maps on endpapers. Cloth cover, folio size. More
80 pages, 22 color photographs, 49 sepia-tone photographs, 4 figures, 1 map. More
San Francisco: 1885. 337 pages of text plus 16 leaves of drawings and 1 double-page map. Lacking upper 1/3 of title page. Cloth cover. More
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1859. First American edition. x, 551 pages, 8 b/w and 3 color plates, many illustrations in text, 1 fold-out map. Cloth cover. Vide Hill, p. 103: "One of the outstanding works on Fiji...contains information on the origin of the natives, their warlike tendencies, industrial..... More
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1859. First American edition. x, 551 pages, 8 b/w and 3 color plates, many illustrations in text, 1 fold-out map. Cloth cover, spine rebacked. Vide Hill, p. 103: "One of the outstanding works on Fiji...contains information on the origin of the natives, their warlike..... More
New York: 1946. 83 pages, 20 pages of photographs, 1 map. Cloth and hard board cover. More