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Detail of cover FIJIAN ARTEFACTS - Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Collection. (ewins1p 180/148 EWIN03)
Ewins, Rod. FIJIAN ARTEFACTS. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Collection. BNo. 0-7246-1099-5. First Edition, 1982 (pb). Pp: vi, 115; 200mm x 255mm; 0.59kg. Num col & b/w, 2 maps. Introduction, appendices I & II, bibliography, acknowledgments, index. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. (minor wear on wrp). Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 1982. (This comprehensive work categorises and describes the broad spectrum of Fijian artefacts, placing them into both 19th century and modern contexts, and using a descriptive and photographic catalogue of the museum's collection for illustration) (Keywords: Ethnology, Pacific, Fiji, masi bola, kesa, vulavula, I ula drisia, tavatava, bowai, waka, culacula, ai tuki, kali ciqi).
Book Code: R632 AU$45
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Detail of cover ART AND LIFE IN NEW GUINEA (gr-firth6p 150/203 FIRT6)
Firth, Raymond. ART AND LIFE IN NEW GUINEA. An overview of primitive art and the social context. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1936. Pp: 126; 255mm x 190mm; 0.68kg. 93 b/w, 8 plates, 1 map. Preface, selected bibliography. A very good hardback copy. Cvr: g. (lacks dw). The Studio Limited, London, 1936. (The book describes and illustrates one of the many interesting forms of primitive culture, that of Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya. More than 90 reproductions show the architecture, sculpture, canoes, weapons, musical instruments and objects of ritual of the inhabitants) (Keywords: Ethnology, Melanesia, Massim, Sepik, Trobriand, Torres Strait, Purari).
Book Code: R474 AU$430
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Freeman, J.D. & W.R. Geddes (ed). ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE SOUTH SEAS. Essays presented to H.D. Skinner. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1959. Pp: 268; 250mm x 180mm; 1.04kg. 30 b/w, 80 fig, 10 tab, 5 maps. Preface, references, bibliography of H.D. Skinner. A good copy in dust wrapper which has some minor wear and tear. Cvr: g; dw: g. Thomas Avery & Sons Ltd, New Plymouth New Zealand, 1959. (The essays presented in the book cover studies in Polynesian pre-history and ethnology to a dmographic survey of New Zealand's Maori population in the late 1950s) (Keywords: Ethnology, Moa-hunter, adzes, Maori, Tikopia, New Guinea, Samoa, Fiji).
Book Code: K308 AU$70
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Detail of cover ART AND LIFE IN NEW GUINEA (gr-gammage1p 160/221 GAMM1)
Gammage, Bill. THE SKY TRAVELLERS. Journeys in New Guinea 1938-1939. BNo. 0-522-84827-3. First Edition, 1998. Pp: xx, 292; 245mm x 175mm; 0.90kg. 49 b/w, 7 maps. Foreword, abbreviations, notes, sources, index. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Victoria, 1998. (This book is the story of a journey of exploration - three thousand kilometres by foot through mountains of the western highlands of Papua New Guinea. First contact was made with many Highlands peoples) (Keywords: New Guinea, Enga, Tari Furora, Telefomin, Sepik, Wabag).
Book Code: M866 AU$45
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Gardner, Robert & Karl G. Heider. GARDENS OF WAR. Life and Death in the New Guinea Stone Age. BNo. 0-1400-3799-3. Reprint Edition, 1974 (1968) (pb). Pp: xx, 184; 245mm x 185mm; 0.46kg. 36 col, 301 b/w, 1 map. Introduction, foreword, acknowledgments, credits, index, note. A good paperback copy. Wrp: g. (minor wear on wrp). Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, 1974. (This book provides a full photographic record of the culture of the Dugum Dani who live in the Grand Valley of Baliem in Irian Jaya) (Keywords: Social anthropology, Pacific, Melanesia, New Guinea, Western Highlands).
Book Code: H212 AU$15
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Detail of wrapper - The Arts of the SOUTH PACIFIC (guiart2ap 170/220 GUIA2)
Guiart, Jean. THE ARTS OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC. The Arts of Mankind Series edited by Andre Malraux. BNo. n/a. First English Edition, 1963. Pp: 456; 280mm x 220mm; 2.32kg. 107 col, 317 b/w, 5 maps. Introduction, glossarial index, bibliography. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Thames and Hudson, London, 1963. (The first part of the book describes the social, religious and cultural milieus of Oceania and the second part is a "Gazetteer of Styles" in detail and region by region basis) (Keywords: Australia, Torres Strait, Papua, Sentani, Sepik, New Caledonia, Huon, Korovar, Massim, Admiralty, Solomon Islands, Maori, Marquesas, Hawaii).
Book Code: J020 AU$380
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Detail of wrap - NEW IRELAND - Art of the South Pacific (gunn01p 180/233 GUNN01)
Gunn, Michael & Philippe Peltier (editors). NEW IRELAND - ART OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC. Saint Louis Art Museum, Musee du quai Branly & Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin. BNo.88-7439-369-5. First Edition, 2007 (pb). Pp: 303; 280mm x 235mm; 1.60kg. num col, b/w & fig. Acknowledgments, foreword, preface, bibliography, index. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2007. (This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition New Ireland - Art of the South Pacific which toured Saint Louis Art Museum, Musee du quai Branly and Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin in 2007. Contributing authors are: Vicky Barnecutt, Michael Gunn, Philippe Peltier, Antje Denner, Susanne Kuechler, Graeme Were, Sean Kingston, Brigitte Derlon and Markus Schindlbeck) (Keywords: Ethnology, Pacific, Melanesia, New Ireland, ritual life, art, figures, Malagan sculpture).
Book Code: V209 AU$80
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Harrisson, Tom. SAVAGE CIVILISATION (pb). Left Book Club Edition. BNo. n/a. Third Impression, 1937 (1937). Pp: 463; 215mm x 140mm; 0.66kg. 38 b/w, 37 fig, 8 maps. Preface, bibliography, index, summary. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: g. (minor wear on wrap). Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1937. (After working with the Oxford University Expedition, the author stayed on in the New Hebrides (Vanuatu). This book is about the people of those islands and their customs and legends. It is also about the history of discovery by the Western world and about their administration of the islands and their people) (Keywords: Social culture, exploration, Pacific, Melanesia, Vanuatu).

Book Code: C124 AU$40
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Detail of cover - MAI-MASKEN DER IATMUL, Papua New Guinea
Hauser-Schaublin, Brigitta. MAI-MASKEN DER IATMUL, PAPUA NEW GUINEA. Stil, Schnitzvorgang Auftritt und Funktion. BNo. n/a. Reprint Edition, 1988 (1976) (pb). Pp: 119-145; 240mm x 170mm; 0.10kg. 18 b/w, 1 map. Preface, bibliography, index. A very good paperback copy in illustrated card wrap. Wrp: vg. Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, Basel, 1988. (This booklet is published in the German language. The article falls into three parts. The first is an introduction the mai-mask collection of the Basel Museum of Ethnography, followed by a description of how the masks are made, based on observations of the author and her husband in the village of Kararau at the end of 1972 and the beginning of 1973. The second part focuses on a performance by the masks which the author attended in the same village in 1979. The article concludes with an attempt to place the mai in a conceptual context) (Keywords: Ethnology, ritual, ceremonies, Pacific, Melanesia, New Guinea, Iatmul, Sepik, Kamenimbit, Kararau, Korogo, Timbunke, mai masks).
Book Code: K195 AU$18
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