BASLER FORSCHER BEI FREMDEN VOLLKERN
Basel: Museum fur Volkerkunde, 1956. 32 pages, 7 pages of photographs of objects in the museum's Melanesian and S.E. Asiian collections and a double-page pphotograph of a relief from Tikal. More
Basel: Museum fur Volkerkunde, 1956. 32 pages, 7 pages of photographs of objects in the museum's Melanesian and S.E. Asiian collections and a double-page pphotograph of a relief from Tikal. More
Dresden: 1986. 68 pages, 83 photographs of hunting and gathering implements, dress and ornamental objects, and ritual objects. More
Halifax Museums, 1957. 58 pages, 37 drawings, 5 photographs. More
Stuttgart: Aboriginal Art of the Australia Council, 1980. 62 pages, 22 large sepia photographs. More
Marseille: 1992. 78 pages, 35 color and 14 b/w photographs, 1 map. A 1992-93 exhibition of fifty-two Polynesian objects--among the oldest in the French national collection--acquired from the late 18th century to the 1870s by French explorers was held in Paris at the Musee des Arts d'Afrique et d'Oceanie. This..... More
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
Washington D.C. 1979. 365 pages, 405 b/w 13 color photographs. Brief inscription by Douglas Newton. One of the most comprehensive exhibitions of Pacific Art ever mounted was held the summer of 1979 at the National Gallery of Art. This dazzling exhibition was comprised of over 400 objects, many of them..... More
Washington D.C. 1979. 365 pages, 405 b/w 13 color photographs. Later cloth cover. One of the most comprehensive exhibitions of Pacific Art ever mounted was held the summer of 1979 at the National Gallery of Art. This dazzling exhibition was comprised of over 400 objects, many of them never before..... More
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
Jakarta: 1987. x, 97 pages (text in English and Indonesian), 16 pages of color photographs, 13 b/w photographs, 25 drawings, 1 map. A full discussion of the Indonesian ikat, found throughout the archipelago, is accompanied by photographs and drawings of scores of ikats. More
Basel: Museum fur Volkerkunde, 1975. 136 pages, 157 photographs of artifacts, ceremonies, structures, and people, 2 maps. More
Tokyo: National Museum of Modern Art, 1978. 294 pages, 164 pages (folio-size 14 1/2" x 10 1/4") of color photographs and 32 pages of b/w photographs. Cloth cover. New and unopened copy in a slipcase. The 1974 exhibition at the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto was the first..... More
Hildesheim: 1991. 432 pages (text in English and German), 98 color and 320 b/w photographs, 32 maps--most of which are quite small. Catalogue of the previously unpublished collections of Indonesian textiles of the Luth collection and the collection of the Hildesheim Roemer Museum. More
Museum fur Volkerkunde, Berlin: 1982. 188 pages of text, plus 636 b/w and 8 color photographs of the collection, 3 maps. Hard board cover. The ghost-like, stone iniet figures found in New Britain are seldom discussed or illustrated in studies of Melanesian art, and are almost never exhibited. The largest..... More
Leiden: n.d. (ca. 1988). 76 pages, 36 large photographs, 2 maps. The styles of thirteen major art-producing areas of New Guinea are described (in this Dutch text) in this Rijksmuseum publication. The 36 illustrated artifacts are from the museum's collections, and are fully discussed in their stylistic contexts. More
Stuttgart: 1987. 151 pages, 16 color and 145 b/w photographs, 2 drawings, 1 map."small catalogue" of the museum's collection of south-Asian material. More
New Delhi: 1984. xiii, 85 pages of text containing several figures and 2 maps, plus 40 unnumbered pages of photographs of the artifacts of the Mina tribe of southern Rajasthan. Cloth cover. More
Societe de Oceanistes. Paris: 1972. cxxi, 123 pages. 8 full-page color and 307 b/w photographs, 1 maps. Boards, weapons, wooden figures, innumerable carved, wooden objects, and objects other than wood--all painted by Aboriginal artists are examined in detail in this study of Aboriginal painting styles and iconography. Drawing from museum..... More
Chicago: Field Museum, 1925. 2 pages of text, 38 full pages of superb photographs of Chinese baskets. Perhaps the first publication to study Chinese baskets, this Field Museum volume may still be the only--certainly it's the definitive publication--study ever to be published on this topic. Thirty-eight 12" x 9" photographs..... More
Asia Society: 1968. 151 pages, 111 b/w and 10 color photographs. More
New York: 1987. 168 pages, 62 color photographs--double-page, full-page, and half-page, 24 smaller color photographs, 18 b/w photographs, 2 drawings, 1 map. Cloth cover. One of a handful of important studies to have been published on the art of New Ireland--and surely the most visually handsome of the handful--this great..... More
New York: 1972 (reprint). 200 pages, 196 photographs, 4 full-page drawings by Miguel Covarrubias. Museum of Modern Art. Soft cover ed. The first major post-war exhibition of Oceanic art to be held in the U.S. spawned this Museum of Modern Art catalogue. Oceanic masterpieces were drawn from major museum and..... More
Museum of Modern Art. New York: 1946. 200 pages, 196 photographs, 4 full-page drawings by Miguel Covarrubias. Cloth cover ed. More
Honolulu Academy of Arts: 2006. 192 pages, 350 color photographs of objects (almost all from Polynesia) in the collection and a description of each. More