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Detail of front of wrap - Bernatzik - South Pacific

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Conru, Kevin (editor). BERNATZIK - SOUTH PACIFIC. Photographs by Hugo A. Bernatzik.

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Detail - ANTHROPOLOGY REPORT</b> - No.2. Territory of Papua. Native Taxes Ordinance 1917-1922. (armstrong01p 210/233 ARMS01)
Armstrong, W.E. et al. ANTHROPOLOGY REPORT - No.2. Territory of Papua. Native Taxes Ordinance 1917-1922. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1922. Pp: (v), 79; 235mm x 165mm; 0.33kg. 13 fig. Indices. A good copy bound in contemporary red-cloth boards. Cvr: g.(minor tape marks on board). Administration, Territory of Papua, Port Moresby, (1922). (A report on the beliefs and customs of Rossel Island and the Southern D'Entrecasteaux and canoes and houses of Delta Division, Maneao District, Goodenough Bay, Trobriand Islands, and Gulf Division) (Keywords: Anthropology, ethnology, linguistics, Papua, New Guinea).
Book Code: J222 AU$360
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Bailey, David. ANOTHER IMAGE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA. More than a social document. BNo. 0-903811-16-2. First Edition, 1975. Pp: 144; 295mm x 210mm; 1.00kg. 95 col & b/w. Introduction, index of photographs. A good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: g; dw: g. Mathews Miller Dunbar, Bailey Co-Production, London, 1975. (Eighty percent of the photographs taken in this book are of people exatly as the author/photographer found them) (Keywords: Photography, Pacific, Melanesia, Papua, Eastern New Guinea).
Book Code: H456 SOLD - now out of stock AU$26
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Detail - THE INNOCENT ARTISTS (baker01p 170/233 BAKE01)
Baker, Catherine. THE INNOCENT ARTISTS. Student Art from Papua New Guinea. BNo.0-7137-1000-4. First Edition, 1980. Pp: (viii), 128; 275mm x 215mm; 0.81kg. 9 col, 23 b/w, 68 draw, 1 map. Foreword, introduction, bibliography, acknowledgments. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Blandford Press, Poole, Dorset, 1980. (This book presents drawings from students of Kerowagi in Papua New Guinea's remote Chimbu Province and raises further questions about the effects of strong cultural traditions upon artistic creativity) (Keywords: Contemporary art, Pacific, Melanesia, New Guinea, Chimbu, drawing).
Book Code: P048 AU$30
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Detail of wrapper of HOHAO - The Uneasy Survival of an Art Form in the Papuan Gulf (beier04bp 170/226 BEIE04)
Beier, Ulli & Albert Maori Kiki. HOHAO. The Uneasy Survival of an Art Form in the Papuan Gulf. BNo. 17-001912-8. First Edition, 1970. Pp: 63; 280mm x 210mm; 0.58kg. 39 b/w. Contents. A very good copy in dust wrapper. White cloth boards. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. (some very light foxing on cvr). Thomas Nelson (Australia) Limited, Melbourne, 1970. (This book describes and analyses the Hohao art form of the ancestral boards fo the Elema people of the Papuan Gulf. It also interprets the religious significance of the designs and investigates the decline of the culture) (Keywords: Ethnology, Pacific, Melanesia, New Guinea, Maori, Orokolo, Iko, Kivavia, Lamara, Epe).
Book Code: V221 AU$110
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Detail of wrap - BETEL-CHEWING EQUIPMENT of East New Guinea (beran3p 140/196 BERA03)
Beran, Harry. BETEL-CHEWING EQUIPMENT OF EAST NEW GUINEA. Decorative design and significance to the Massim culture. BNo. 0-85263-969-4. First Edition, 1988 (pb). Pp: 72; 210mm x 150mm; 0.15kg. 95 b/w & fig, 1 map. Concluding remarks, glossary, museums, further reading, index. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Shire Publications Ltd, Aylesbury, UK, 1988. (This book presents a typology of the designs of lime spatulas from the Massim culture area based on the thousands of pieces collected in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with many illustrations of the finest specimens. It also indicates the social context and significance of the implements) (Keywords: Ethnology, material culture, Pacific, New Guinea, Massim).
Book Code: J065 SOLD - now out of stock AU$18
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Detail of wrap - MUTUAGA - A Nineteenth-Century New Guinea Master Carver (beran04p 165/219 BERA04)
Beran, Harry. MUTUAGA. A Nineteenth-Century New Guinea Master Carver. BNo. 0-86418-375-5. First Edition, 1996 (pb). Pp: xv, 251; 275mm x 205mm; 0.77kg. 148 b/w, 18 fig, 2 tab, 2 maps. Foreword, acknowledgments, introduction, glossary, inventories 1 to 6, appendices A to F, bibliography, index. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. The University of Wollongong Press, Wollongong, NSW, 1996. (This book presents the artworks of Mutuaga, a traditional master carver of Milne Bay Province (the Massim district) of Papua New Guinea. Mutuaga flourished from about 1880 to the early 1920s. His surviving work includes more than eighty carvings, which are illustrated in this book) (Keywords: Ethnology, tribal art, cultural history, Pacific, Melanesia, New Guinea, Massim).
Book Code: J061 SOLD - now out of stock AU$45
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Detail - Faces of Papua New Guinea (birnbaum01p 175/240 BIRN01)
Birnbaum, Phil & Andrew J. Strathern (text). FACES OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA. A unique photographic insight. BNo. 0-7316-9762-6. First Edition, 1990. Pp: 160; 300mm x 220mm; 1.20kg. 153 col, 1 map. Introduction. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Emperor Publishing, Darlinghurst, NSW, 1990. (Phil Birnbaum made five trips to Papua New Guinea from 1983 to 1989 photographing the tribal peoples in their natural environment) (Keywords: Cultural costumes, Pacific, Melanesia, New Guinea, Wahgi, Highlands, Simbu, Goroka, Mendi, Huli, Anga, Boldi, Bomai).
Book Code: C324 AU$49
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